Mal Olorand Colonial Latin American History
Smellscapes in Lima, Peru, 1535-1614
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2835679 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathleen Kole De Peralta (0000-0002-3294-6955, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-30 |
| Publication date | 2019-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00182168-7287951 |
| OpenAlex | W2914838606 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 52 |
Noxious airs from trash discards, irrigation canals, marketplaces, hospitals, and plazas vitiated colonial Lima's environment. Using olfactory history, this article examines how residents reacted to their pungent environs. Early modern Iberians believed that foul smells were harmful. Fully understanding this relationship, municipal leaders subjugated the San Lázaro district by relocating its indigenous population and moving noxious trades and institutions to the area. I argue that the concentration of miasmas in San Lázaro represents an environmental conquest. San Lázaro's ethnically and socially diverse population lived with unhealthy airs that threatened their health. By contrast, central Lima enjoyed fresher airs in locations primarily occupied by Spanish vecinos (male, landowning citizens, who were allowed to participate in local politics) in and around the Plaza de Armas, the cathedral, the viceroy's palace, and the municipal hall. The protection of central Lima's airs reveals that environmental management corresponded to social status and political power
Ancient history · Archaeology · Biology · Colonialism · CONQUEST · Ethnology · Expansive · Geography · Indigenous · Latin Americans · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Demography · Ecology · History · Law
Religion in the Andes
Nature, Empire, and Nation
The Body of the Conquistador
Inca Religion and Customs
Ecological Imperialism
A Plague of Sheep
Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen
Experiência a madre das cousas – on the ‘Revolution of Experience’ in Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Maritime Discoveries and its Foundational Role in the Emergence of the Scientific Worldview
Discourses of Poverty
Making Medicines in Early Colonial Lima, Peru
El pleito de la curación de la lepra en el Hospital de San Lázaro, de Lima
Religion in the Andes
Plague Hospitals
Public health and municipal water policies in Colonial Lima, Peru, 1535–1635
Public Health, Peasant Bodies and the Spanish Colonisation of Patagonia
The Foul and the Fragrant
From Gluttony to Enlightenment
Grammars of Death
Grammars of Death
Ecological Imperialism
Eating Right in the Renaissance
Plague Hospitals
Monuments of Progress
Vertical Empire
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Smell, Space and Othering
Latin American Environmental History
Alone before God
Miasmas and Disease
Fear of Hot Climates in the Anglo-American Colonial Experience
Diabolism in Colonial Peru
Measuring Up
The African Slave in Colonial Peru, 1524-1650
Fevered Measures
The Indian in Latin American History
Alone before God
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2021 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |