Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ – Corpus Christi in Colonial Cuzco, Peru

"In Inka Bodies and the Body of Christ, Dean displays superior knowledge of Cuzco society in the seventeenth century: its religious institutions, belief systems, painters, and relations between colonizers and colonized. This long-awaited book will be welcomed by specialists in the field." - R.T. Zuidema, University of Illinois "A provocative and nuanced interdisciplinary study. Dean effectively moves beyond mere historical reconstruction to explore the religious festival of Corpus Christi as an aesthetic, expressive, and sociopolitical event not only within colonial Cuzco life but within the broader context of the colonial enterprise in the Americas." - Jeanette Favrot Peterson, University of California, Santa Barbara "This is a coherently argued book that is based on perceptive visual analyses supported by a good knowledge of historical archives ... convincingly argued and thought-provoking ... "-- Journal of Latin American Studies, February 2002

"A provocative and nuanced interdisciplinary study. Dean effectively moves beyond mere historical reconstruction to explore the religious festival of Corpus Christi as an aesthetic, expressive, and sociopolitical event not only within colonial Cuzco life but within the broader context of the colonial enterprise in the Americas."--Jeanette Favrot Peterson, University of California, Santa Barbara