Tamara J Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3765043 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tamara J Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tamara J |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER T J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0835-3196 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Slavery and Dominion in the South Sea Armada, 1570s-1680s
A key outcome of Francis Drake’s incursion into the South Sea was the formation of the South Sea Armada, which was based out of the port of Callao in the Viceroyalty of Peru and whose primary purpose was to guard the transport of silver to Panama, where it would be transferred for trans-oceanic shipment. Yet the squadron faced immediate existential threats from within, as evidenced by the pattern of viceregal decrees targeting slaveholders who br…
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Barriers, Facilitators and Unmet Need Among Rural People Who Inject Drugs
Drawing on the critical perspectives of people with substance use disorder, our findings provide important and actionable information on individual and environmental barriers and facilitators of PrEP uptake among rural PWID at high risk for HIV infection. These data will drive the adaptation and implementation of a client-centered approach to integrated PrEP care within rurally located SSP settings to address unmet needs for PrEP care
Power and Portraiture in a Bolivian Mining Town
Portrait of Francisco de Paula Sanz is an unsigned, undated portrait of a Spanish-born colonial official. From 1789 to 1810, Sanz served as governor of Potosí, home to the “rich hill” that housed vast quantities of silver ore and likely site of the portrait’s creation. This context points to an Indigenous artist, or group of artists, belonging to a local guild or workshop. The absence of a signature bolsters this possibility, as it was not genera…
T hey P roved to B e V ery G ood S ailors ”
This article mines archival sources and published accounts from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to highlight the extent to which enslaved men, women, and children in the South Sea came into contact with British corsairs. It does so in ways that lend to three important observations: that people of African descent occupied a central role within the history of British corsair activity in the South Sea; that British corsair activi…
María Hipólita Lozano, Eighteenth-Century Lima (Peru)
In 1781 Lima, a mulato libre named Pedro Nolasco Boller filed a civil suit on behalf of his enslaved daughter María Hipólita Lozano. In their statements, both father and daughter described Lozano’s life in the Salvatierra home as exceedingly brutal. She was exposed to regular physical and sexual abuse at the hands of both husband and wife, and it was this accretion of assaults that forced her to run away. When that attempt at freedom was foiled, …
That is How Whores Get Punished
This article focuses on an incident in colonial Peru during which a Spanish sailor attacked his former lover—a free black laundress—with a knife. A close reading of the woman's subsequent lawsuit reveals that, in addition to a near-lethal attack, she suffered from myriad other abuses. In the months prior to the physical altercation, she endured ongoing harassment and verbal abuse from her assailant. And, as she attempted to recover from her wound…
Exquisite Slaves
In Exquisite Slaves, Tamara J. Walker examines how slaves used elegant clothing as a language for expressing attitudes about gender and status in the wealthy urban center of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Lima, Peru. Drawing on traditional historical research methods, visual studies, feminist theory, and material culture scholarship, Walker argues that clothing was an emblem of not only the reach but also the limits of slaveholders' power and…
Black Skin, White Uniforms
In a 2011 article in Hola! magazine, several members of a wealthy Colombian family posed on the terrace of their expansive estate overlooking the Valley of Cauca. It was a striking image, in part because it featured an all-female lineup of mothers and daughters who were all power-players in the local business community. But it was the figures in the background of the image that stood out most of all: posed in profile were two Afro-Colombian women…
The Material Bonds of Slavery
Blanconas Sucias ’ and ‘ Putas Putonas ’
The Queen of los Congos
In 1812, in Lima, an enslaved woman named María Santos Puente was ousted from her post as queen of an African-descent confraternity and replaced by a free woman. Refusing to step down quietly, Santos Puente took her grievance to court. In examining the details of the case, this article draws attention to the ways in which confraternity membership provided access to community, kinship, and sources of mutual aid. It also shows how, in denying her t…
Costume and History in Highland Ecuador
Ann Pollard Rowe has edited a fascinating volume that traces the evolution of indigenous costume in highland Ecuador from its pre-Columbian origins to the modern era. The book employs diverse sources and interpretive lenses to meet the demands of its broad subject matter and temporal scope, drawing upon early ceramic sculpture, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century textile remains, colonial-era wills and tribute records, and eighteenth- and nineteenth…
Historian among Filmmakers
He outfitted his family in notable decency’
For elite Spaniards in eighteenth-century Lima, elegant clothing provided a language for expressing their wealth, status and honour. They frequently made their way around town in the company of elegantly dressed slave attendants, whose presence underscored their owners' privilege. Yet many slaves found opportunities to function as more than mere canvasses for the expression of their owners' identities. Indeed, for a surprising number of slaves, e…
Women's Lives in Colonial Quito
Exquisite Slaves
In Exquisite Slaves, Tamara J. Walker examines how slaves used elegant clothing as a language for expressing attitudes about gender and status in the wealthy urban center of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Lima, Peru. Drawing on traditional historical research methods, visual studies, feminist theory, and material culture scholarship, Walker argues that clothing was an emblem of not only the reach but also the limits of slaveholders' power and…
T hey P roved to B e V ery G ood S ailors ”
This article mines archival sources and published accounts from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to highlight the extent to which enslaved men, women, and children in the South Sea came into contact with British corsairs. It does so in ways that lend to three important observations: that people of African descent occupied a central role within the history of British corsair activity in the South Sea; that British corsair activi…
He outfitted his family in notable decency’
For elite Spaniards in eighteenth-century Lima, elegant clothing provided a language for expressing their wealth, status and honour. They frequently made their way around town in the company of elegantly dressed slave attendants, whose presence underscored their owners' privilege. Yet many slaves found opportunities to function as more than mere canvasses for the expression of their owners' identities. Indeed, for a surprising number of slaves, e…
That is How Whores Get Punished
This article focuses on an incident in colonial Peru during which a Spanish sailor attacked his former lover—a free black laundress—with a knife. A close reading of the woman's subsequent lawsuit reveals that, in addition to a near-lethal attack, she suffered from myriad other abuses. In the months prior to the physical altercation, she endured ongoing harassment and verbal abuse from her assailant. And, as she attempted to recover from her wound…
Black Skin, White Uniforms
In a 2011 article in Hola! magazine, several members of a wealthy Colombian family posed on the terrace of their expansive estate overlooking the Valley of Cauca. It was a striking image, in part because it featured an all-female lineup of mothers and daughters who were all power-players in the local business community. But it was the figures in the background of the image that stood out most of all: posed in profile were two Afro-Colombian women…
The Queen of los Congos
In 1812, in Lima, an enslaved woman named María Santos Puente was ousted from her post as queen of an African-descent confraternity and replaced by a free woman. Refusing to step down quietly, Santos Puente took her grievance to court. In examining the details of the case, this article draws attention to the ways in which confraternity membership provided access to community, kinship, and sources of mutual aid. It also shows how, in denying her t…
Women's Lives in Colonial Quito
He outfitted his family in notable decency’
For elite Spaniards in eighteenth-century Lima, elegant clothing provided a language for expressing their wealth, status and honour. They frequently made their way around town in the company of elegantly dressed slave attendants, whose presence underscored their owners' privilege. Yet many slaves found opportunities to function as more than mere canvasses for the expression of their owners' identities. Indeed, for a surprising number of slaves, e…
Historian among Filmmakers
Costume and History in Highland Ecuador
Ann Pollard Rowe has edited a fascinating volume that traces the evolution of indigenous costume in highland Ecuador from its pre-Columbian origins to the modern era. The book employs diverse sources and interpretive lenses to meet the demands of its broad subject matter and temporal scope, drawing upon early ceramic sculpture, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century textile remains, colonial-era wills and tribute records, and eighteenth- and nineteenth…
Blanconas Sucias ’ and ‘ Putas Putonas ’
The Queen of los Congos
In 1812, in Lima, an enslaved woman named María Santos Puente was ousted from her post as queen of an African-descent confraternity and replaced by a free woman. Refusing to step down quietly, Santos Puente took her grievance to court. In examining the details of the case, this article draws attention to the ways in which confraternity membership provided access to community, kinship, and sources of mutual aid. It also shows how, in denying her t…
The Material Bonds of Slavery
Exquisite Slaves
In Exquisite Slaves, Tamara J. Walker examines how slaves used elegant clothing as a language for expressing attitudes about gender and status in the wealthy urban center of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Lima, Peru. Drawing on traditional historical research methods, visual studies, feminist theory, and material culture scholarship, Walker argues that clothing was an emblem of not only the reach but also the limits of slaveholders' power and…
Black Skin, White Uniforms
In a 2011 article in Hola! magazine, several members of a wealthy Colombian family posed on the terrace of their expansive estate overlooking the Valley of Cauca. It was a striking image, in part because it featured an all-female lineup of mothers and daughters who were all power-players in the local business community. But it was the figures in the background of the image that stood out most of all: posed in profile were two Afro-Colombian women…
That is How Whores Get Punished
This article focuses on an incident in colonial Peru during which a Spanish sailor attacked his former lover—a free black laundress—with a knife. A close reading of the woman's subsequent lawsuit reveals that, in addition to a near-lethal attack, she suffered from myriad other abuses. In the months prior to the physical altercation, she endured ongoing harassment and verbal abuse from her assailant. And, as she attempted to recover from her wound…
María Hipólita Lozano, Eighteenth-Century Lima (Peru)
In 1781 Lima, a mulato libre named Pedro Nolasco Boller filed a civil suit on behalf of his enslaved daughter María Hipólita Lozano. In their statements, both father and daughter described Lozano’s life in the Salvatierra home as exceedingly brutal. She was exposed to regular physical and sexual abuse at the hands of both husband and wife, and it was this accretion of assaults that forced her to run away. When that attempt at freedom was foiled, …
T hey P roved to B e V ery G ood S ailors ”
This article mines archival sources and published accounts from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to highlight the extent to which enslaved men, women, and children in the South Sea came into contact with British corsairs. It does so in ways that lend to three important observations: that people of African descent occupied a central role within the history of British corsair activity in the South Sea; that British corsair activi…
Slavery and Dominion in the South Sea Armada, 1570s-1680s
A key outcome of Francis Drake’s incursion into the South Sea was the formation of the South Sea Armada, which was based out of the port of Callao in the Viceroyalty of Peru and whose primary purpose was to guard the transport of silver to Panama, where it would be transferred for trans-oceanic shipment. Yet the squadron faced immediate existential threats from within, as evidenced by the pattern of viceregal decrees targeting slaveholders who br…
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Barriers, Facilitators and Unmet Need Among Rural People Who Inject Drugs
Drawing on the critical perspectives of people with substance use disorder, our findings provide important and actionable information on individual and environmental barriers and facilitators of PrEP uptake among rural PWID at high risk for HIV infection. These data will drive the adaptation and implementation of a client-centered approach to integrated PrEP care within rurally located SSP settings to address unmet needs for PrEP care
Power and Portraiture in a Bolivian Mining Town
Portrait of Francisco de Paula Sanz is an unsigned, undated portrait of a Spanish-born colonial official. From 1789 to 1810, Sanz served as governor of Potosí, home to the “rich hill” that housed vast quantities of silver ore and likely site of the portrait’s creation. This context points to an Indigenous artist, or group of artists, belonging to a local guild or workshop. The absence of a signature bolsters this possibility, as it was not genera…
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