{"id":8957,"date":"2020-12-30T02:00:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T02:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/?p=8957"},"modified":"2021-01-05T19:20:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T19:20:20","slug":"humanities-faculty-research-grant-award-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/humanities-faculty-research-grant-award-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanities Faculty Research Grant Award 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\"><em>On the Edge of the Wild: Representations of Peru\u2019s Monta\u00f1a Region and its Indigenous Peoples, an Enduring Borderland between the Andean and Amazonian Worlds (1543-1880)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ximena Sevilla, Multicultural Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow, History<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sevilla\u2019s project focuses on the environmental and ethnohistory of the monta\u00f1a region\u2014densely forested eastern slopes of the Andean highlands in northern Peru. \u201cOn the Edge of the Wild: Representations of Peru\u2019s Monta\u00f1a Region and its Indigenous Peoples, an Enduring Borderland between the Andean and Amazonian Worlds\u201d demonstrates how Indigenous peoples, Spanish conquistadors, missionaries, scientific explorers, and early national elites have formulated conceptions of this monta\u00f1a and how these ideas have changed or adapted over time. This is a regional history of the monta\u00f1a that traces back past ecological, cultural, and geopolitical considerations that have positioned the monta\u00f1a region as a central place within the territorial imagination of Peru, and more generally of the Andean World. From the last days of the Inca Empire until the nineteenth century before the rubber boom, the environmental attributes of the monta\u00f1a region have allowed its diverse residents to see the value in maintaining a physical and cultural barrier with colonial powers and urban early national elites. The overarching argument centers on the monta\u00f1a region\u2019s portrayal as an obstacle for outsiders\u2019 imperial agendas across four centuries of history. As much as these outsiders had envisioned themselves as gaining or maintaining control over this tropical environment and its Natives, the unsustainable nature of their relationships with this place and its peoples continually derailed their expectations\u2014forcing them to adapt, regroup, and develop different plans to execute. On the other hand, from the perspective of its Natives, the monta\u00f1a was far from being an obstacle. Indeed, its supposed wildness and inaccessibility often facilitated their possibilities to stay alive, to have some autonomy while resisting the colonial church and state\u2019s impositions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Edge of the Wild: Representations of Peru\u2019s Monta\u00f1a Region and its Indigenous Peoples, an Enduring Borderland between the Andean and Amazonian Worlds (1543-1880) Ximena Sevilla, Multicultural Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow, History Dr. Sevilla\u2019s project focuses on the environmental and ethnohistory of the monta\u00f1a region\u2014densely forested eastern slopes of the Andean highlands in northern Peru. 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