Viewing a variety of narratives through the lens of inebriation imagery, this book explores how such imagery emerges in colonial Peru as articulator of notions of the self and difference, resulting in a new social hierarchy and exploitation. Reading Inebr
Contents: Introduction: colonial difference and cultural encounters; Inebriation imagery in dictionaries, poetry, and the law; Docility and notions of taverns, rituals and religion; Drinking archives; Of places, indigenous women, and priests: a criticism