REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES CHRONICALS IN PERÁ AT THE BEGINNINGS OF 20TH CENTURY

Fonseca J. · Dialogo Andino (2020) · DOI: 10.4067/s0719-26812020000300079

Resumen

This article studies the Andean world's representations in the chronicles written by protestant missionaries working in Peru between 1890 and 1920. To this end, we study the construction of the missionary chronicle as a particular narrative genre of Anglo-Saxon protestant missions in Peru during the abovementioned period. On this basis, we show how representations about the indigenous “other” played a crucial role in the narrative of protestant missionaries. Likewise, we offer clues about how those representations reinforced the colonial imagination about indigenous people, shared by both the protestant missionaries.

Instituciones: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas