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Irene Silverblatt

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Irene Silverblatt
Born1948 (age 75–76)
NationalityAmerican
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship
1992
Radcliffe Fellowship
2001–2002
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Michigan (PhD)
ThesisMoon, Sun, and Devil: Inca and Colonial Transformations of Andean Gender Relations (1981)
Academic work
DisciplineAnthropologist
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsDuke University

Irene Silverblatt (born 1948) is a professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University. Her work revolves mainly around race and religion in Peru during the Spanish Inquisition. Silverblatt earned her PhD at the University of Michigan.[1]

Silverblatt studies the intersection of the categories of race and religion, and how colonial categories based on them affect the contemporary world. She is a leading scholar in Peruvian late modern history and the effects of religion and race in Spanish South America.[1]

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  • Silverblatt, Irene (2004). Modern Inquisitions: Peru and the Colonial Origins of the Civilized World. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-3417-0.
  • Silverblatt, Irene (1987). Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-6910-2258-1.

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  1. ^ a b "Irene Silverblatt". Scholars@Duke. Retrieved 2023-07-24.