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Pandemic in Potosí - Fear, Loathing, and Public Piety in a Colonial Mining Metropolis (Paperback)
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Pandemic in Potosí - Fear, Loathing, and Public Piety in a Colonial Mining Metropolis (Paperback)
Series: Latin American Originals
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Loot Price R533
Discovery Miles 5 330
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In 1719, a deadly and highly contagious disease took hold of the
Imperial Villa of Potosí, a silver mining metropolis in what is
now Bolivia. Within a year, the pathogen had killed some 22,000
people, just over a third of the city’s residents. Victims
collapsed with fever, body aches, and effusions of blood from the
nose and mouth. Most died within days. The great Andean pandemic of
1717–22 was likely the most destructive disease to strike South
America since the days of the Spanish conquest. Pandemic in Potosí
features the single longest narrative of this nearly forgotten
period, penned by local historian Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y
Vela, along with shorter treatments of the disease’s ravages in
Cuzco, Arequipa, and the outskirts of Lima. The “Gran Peste,”
as it was called, was a pivotal event about which Arzáns wrote at
length because he lived through it, but also because it was
believed to have cosmic significance. Kris Lane translates and
contextualizes Arzáns’s account, which is rich in local detail
that sheds light on a range of topics—from therapeutics,
devotional life, class relations, gender, and race to conceptions
of illness, sin, and human will and responsibility during a major
public health crisis. Original narratives of the pandemic,
translated here for the first time, help readers see commonalities
and differences between past and present disease encounters.
Designed for use in courses on Latin American history, this concise
work will also interest scholars and students of the history of
religion, history of medicine, urban studies, and epidemiology.
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