{"id":7183,"date":"2013-08-08T04:00:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/?p=7183"},"modified":"2016-01-14T17:02:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T22:02:54","slug":"perus-pre-eminent-historian-maria-rostworowski-is-98-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/2013\/perus-pre-eminent-historian-maria-rostworowski-is-98-today\/7183\/","title":{"rendered":"Peru&#8217;s pre-eminent historian Mar\u00ed\u00ada Rostworowski is 98 today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Few historians have made as great an impact on our understanding of pre-Columbian Peru and the mysterious Inca Empire as Mar\u00ad\u00eda Rostworowski Tovar de Diez Canseco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Maria-Rostworowski.jpg\" alt=\"Peruvian historian Maria Rostworowski (Barranco, Lima, 8 de agosto de 1915 - )\" title=\"Peruvian historian Maria Rostworowski\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born Aug. 8, 1915 in the then-seaside village of Barranco (now Lima&#8217;s bohemian quarter), Rostworowski studied at the National University of San Marcos (the oldest university in the Americas). There she was a student of another giant of Peruvian historical works, Ra\u00fal Porras Barrenechea, and the equally influential American anthropologist and Inca investigator, John Murra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her ethnohistorical investigations \u2014 drawing heavily on primary documents from the Conquest and early Spanish Colonial periods \u2014 were vivid and groundbreaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She breathed life into a range of topics, including the mythical origins of the Incas, the&nbsp; rapid expansion of the Inca Empire, its precipitate fall, and the extirpation of Andean religion under the Inquisition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rostworowski&nbsp;was a pioneer in shedding a bright new light on the sexual politics that played out between the Inca \u00f1usta princesses, whose world was ripped apart, and the invading Conquistadors, who lined up to baptize and marry the Inca royal women to gain legal title under Spanish law to their lands and riches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Rostworowski&#8217;s works include:\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Pachacutec Inca Yupanqui (1953)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pesos y medidas en el Per\u00fa prehisp\u00e1nico (1960)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Curacas y sucesiones Costa norte (1961)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Se\u00f1or\u00ados Ind\u00adgenas de Lima y Canta (1981)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Conflicts over Coca Fields in XVI century Per\u00fa (1988)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Historia del Tahuantinsuyu (1988) &#8211; Translated for Cambridge as &#8220;History of the Inca Realm&#8221; (1999)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ensayos de Historia Andina: \u2030lites, Etnias, Recursos (1993)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Do\u00f1a Francisca\u00a0 Pizarro: An Illustrious Mestiza &#8211; 1534-1598 (2003)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We want to wish Mar\u00ada Rostworowski a joyous birthday. She turns 98 today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few historians have made as great an impact on our understanding of pre-Columbian Peru and the mysterious Inca Empire as Mar\u00ad\u00eda Rostworowski Tovar de Diez Canseco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,18,36],"tags":[298,89],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-7183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-on-peru","category-history","category-prominent-peruvians","tag-book-review","tag-inca-history","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7183"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fertur-travel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=7183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}