{"id":3680,"date":"2021-09-08T20:57:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T20:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/16.147.243.36\/?p=3680"},"modified":"2021-09-08T20:57:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T20:57:43","slug":"experiencing-the-city-sensory-history-and-the-built-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hahr-online.com\/es\/experiencing-the-city-sensory-history-and-the-built-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiencing the City: Sensory History and the Built Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Curated by Samantha Davis<\/a><\/p>\n

Thematic Collections are assortments of past and recently released articles in <\/em>HAHR about key issues, events, individuals, or historiographical trends. These collections can be used as gateways into a specific historical subject, demonstrations of methodology, or sources for classroom discussion.<\/em><\/p>\n

Each time we move through our towns and cities, we are inundated by sensory input from passing cars to singing birds to signs hanging in windows. With so much to see, hear, smell, and feel, our sensory experiences shape our perceptions of place. These Hispanic American Historical Review <\/em>authors present innovative investigations of the built environment, exploring how historical actors may have experienced urban geographies. The cityscape, from its public plazas to the private residences lining the streets, is discussed as an important category of historical analysis that influences and shapes the events that occur within and beyond its bounds. Treating histories of the senses and the experience of space in built environments, these authors explore a range of human experiences in Lima with intriguing possibilities for future research throughout Latin America.<\/p>\n

Kathleen Kole de Peralta, \u201cMal Olor<\/em> and Colonial Latin American History: Smellscapes in Lima, Peru, 1535-1614\u201d HAHR<\/em> 99:1 (2019).<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this thought-provoking article, Kole de Peralta examines how residents and municipal officials dealt with unhealthy airs and unpleasant odors, arguing that by relocating indigenous populations and trade shops to San L\u00e1zaro, officials ensured the city center occupied by elite Spaniards had clean air. Through this geographic analysis of Lima\u2019s urban spaces, Kole de Peralta argues that the concentration of noxious odors in San L\u00e1zaro was part of an environmental conquest.<\/p>\n

Alejandra Bronfman and Christine Ehrick, \u201cForum Introduction: Listening for History\u201d HAHR<\/em> 96:2 (2016).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bronfman and Ehrick introduce the thematic issue, \u201cListening for History,\u201d in which HAHR authors present innovative approaches to urban space, travel, archives, modes of resistance, and oral history, among other topics. Find this thematic issue, HAHR<\/em> 96:2 (2016), at https:\/\/read.dukeupress.edu\/hahr\/issue\/96\/2<\/a>, and an accompanying freely accessible forum at https:\/\/16.147.243.36\/hahr-sound-forum\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Karen B. Graubart, \u201cThe Creolization of the New World: Local Forms of Identification in Urban Colonial Peru, 1560-1640\u201d HAHR <\/em>89:3 (2009)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Graubart looks for the use of vernacular language in last wills and testaments from Lima and Trujillo to better understand how non-elite individuals described themselves and others in relation to city streets. In these wills, space often takes the form of one\u2019s relationship to their city or town of residence, a marker often used to claim power or privileges as Graubart explores in this article.<\/p>\n

Alejandra Osorio, \u201cThe King in Lima: Simulacra, Ritual, and Rule in Seventeenth-Century Peru\u201d HAHR<\/em> 84:3 (2004).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Though a Spanish king never set foot in Spain\u2019s colonial domains, his ritual and symbolic presence in the Americas, via portraits and other simulacra, contributed to the development of a geography of royal power. Osorio\u2019s article argues that by rendering the king \u201cpresent\u201d in these ways, colonial officials in Lima bound the distant king and his local subjects in a reciprocal pact via ritual practice.<\/p>\n

Charles F. Walker, \u201cThe Upper Classes and Their Upper Stories: Architecture and the Aftermath of the Lima Earthquake of 1746\u201d HAHR<\/em> 83:1 (2003).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Walker argues that viceregal authorities viewed  the devastating earthquake and tsunami of 1746 as an opportunity to rebuild Lima as an example of an orderly Bourbon city. Reform efforts were not met without opposition, however, and Walker follows the many debates surrounding the rebuilding of Lima into the streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Curated by Samantha Davis Thematic Collections are assortments of past and recently released articles in HAHR about key issues, events, individuals, or historiographical trends. These collections can be used as gateways into a specific historical subject, demonstrations of methodology, or sources for classroom discussion. Each time we move through our towns and cities, we are inundated by sensory input from passing cars to singing birds to signs hanging in windows. With so much to see, hear, smell, and feel, our sensory …<\/p>\n

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