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The South American Epidemic of 1720: A Historical Enigma

    College of Liberal Arts

    Gabriela Ramos is a senior lecturer of history at the University of Cambridge and a specialist of the colonial Andes. Her first book Death and Conversion in the Andes. Lima and Cuzco, 1532-1670 (Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2010) won the Howard F. Cline Prize in 2011. She is the editor of Indigenous Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in the Andes (Duke Univ. Press, 2014) and author of numerous pathbreaking articles on conversion and religion in Peru. Her latest book is El cuerpo en palabras: Estudios sobre religion, salud y humanidad en los Andes colonials (Lima: Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos, 2020).

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    Created By: College of Liberal Arts, Latin American Studies
    Sponsors: Latin American Studies Program // Department of History
    Open To: Public
    Intended Audience: Open to all
    Type: Lecture
    Tags: Latin American Studies // epidemics // Latin American history

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