Zoila Silvia Mendoza

B.A., Licenciatura, Anthropology, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
M.A., Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Chicago

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Festivals, music and dance in the Americas, particularly in Peru and the rest of the Andean region, Quechua-speaking people's forms of Knowledge, Quechua language revitalization processes.

 

BOOKS

Zoila S. Mendoza,
Shaping Society through Dance: Mestizo Ritual Performance in the Peruvian Andes.
(University of Chicago Press, 2000)

 

Zoila S. Mendoza,
Creating Our Own: Folklore, Performance, and Identity in Cuzco, Peru
(Duke Unversity Press, 2008)

Visit Creating Our Own's  Book Website

 

 

(Fondo Editorial Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2001)

Full Access to Text, Companion Video and CD:

https://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/137043?fbclid=IwAR0lSyPadRpIVdVBEunGNhgH4Lzuda2iVtDuB1CNmowEoZcbR56RLmFHd6c

 

 

(Fondo Editorial Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2006)

Full Access to text:

https://www.academia.edu/38094255/Crear_y_sentir_lo_nuestro_Folclor_identidad_regional_y_nacional_en_el_Cuzco_siglo_XX

 

 

(La Siniestra Ensayos, 2021, print and e-book)

https://lasiniestraensayos.com/libro/qoyllur-riti-cronica-de-una-peregrinacion-cusquena/

Buy Kindle Edition on Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/Qoyllur-Riti-Cr%C3%B3nica-peregrinaci%C3%B3n-cusque%C3%B1a-ebook/dp/B08XN4S1B4/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Zoila+Mendoza&qid=1627090348&sr=8-2

 

FILMS

ANFASEP-Love and the Search for the Disappeared:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZE2QSqaYGo

Memory Walkers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3VHAfMBqGs

Caminantes de la Memoria:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUjYqWUYNyE

La Peregrinación al Santuario del Señor de Qoyllur Rit'i: La Experiencia del Camino:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj2FFF6gafw&t=2s

The Pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of the Lord of Qoyllur Rit'i: The Walk Experience:

https://www.berkeleymedia.com/product/the_pilgrimage_to_the_sanctuary_of_the_lord_of_qoyllur_riti/

COURSES TAUGHT

Undergraduate:

• NAS 125 Performance and Culture Among Native Americans
• NAS 110 A Quechua Language and Society, Beginning Level 1
• NAS 110 B Quechua Language and Society, Beginning Level 2
• NAS 110 C Quechua Language and Society, Intermediate Level 1
• NAS 110 D Quechua Language and Society, Intermediate Level 2

Graduate

• NAS 224 Performance in the Americas
• NAS 202 Andean Knowledges

LATEST PROJECTS:

• View slides and video at the Guggenheim Foundation site