Irene Silverblatt

Irene Silverblatt
Born	1948 (age 76–77)
Nationality	American
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship 1992 Radcliffe Fellowship 2001–2002
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Michigan (PhD)
Thesis	Moon, Sun, and Devil: Inca and Colonial Transformations of Andean Gender Relations (1981)
Academic work
Discipline	Anthropologist
Sub-discipline	Cultural anthropology Anthropology of Peru
Institutions	Duke 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]

Articles

• Glauz-Todrank, Annalise E; Boyarin, Jonathan; Silverblatt, Irene; Geller, Jay; Gross, Aaron; Imhoff, Sarah; Sippy, Shana (2014). "Jewish identification and critical theory: The political significance of conceptual categories". Critical Research on Religion. 2 (2): 165–194. doi:10.1177/2050303214535009.
• Silverblatt, Irene (2012). "Heresies and Colonial Geopolitics". Romanic Review. 103 (1/2): 65–80. doi:10.1215/26885220-103.1-2.65. ProQuest 1321732981.
• "Confronting Nationalisms, Cosmopolitan Visions, and the Politics of Memory: Aesthetics of Reconciliation and Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger in Western Ukraine". Dissidences. 4 (8). 2012.
• Silverblatt, Irene (2011). "Chasteté et pureté des liens sociaux dans le Pérou du XVIIe siècle". Cahiers du Genre. n° 50 (1): 17–40. doi:10.3917/cdge.050.0017. {{cite journal}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
• Silverblatt, Irene (2011). "Colonial Peru and the Inquisition: Race-Thinking, Torture, and the Making of the Modern World". Transforming Anthropology. 19 (2): 132–138. doi:10.1111/j.1548-7466.2011.01127.x.
• Silverblatt, Irene (2006). "Colonial Conspiracies". Ethnohistory. 53 (2): 259–280. doi:10.1215/00141801-53-2-259.
• Silverblatt, Irene (2000). "New Christians and New World Fears in Seventeenth-Century Peru". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 42 (3): 524–546. doi:10.1017/S0010417500002929 (inactive 1 November 2024). JSTOR 2696644.

Book chapters

• Silverblatt, Irene (2002). "New Christians and New World Fears in Seventeenth-Century Peru". In Axel, Brian Keith (ed.). From the Margins: Historical Anthropology and Its Futures. Duke University Press. pp. 95–121. doi:10.2307/j.ctv1131256. ISBN 9780822328612. JSTOR j.ctv1131256.

Books

• 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.

Editing

• Meerbaum-Eisinger, Selma (2008-09-29). Silverblatt, Irene; Silverblatt, Helene (eds.). Harvest of Blossoms: Poems from a Life Cut Short. Translated by Glenn, Jerry; Birkmayer, Florian; Silverblatt, Helene; Silverblatt, Irene. Northwestern University Press. ISBN 978-0-8101-2537-7.

References

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