Word: mestizos
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...unique style thus developed under the tutelage of immigrant European craftsmen became known as mestizo (half-breed). It incorporated Christian and pre-Columbian conventions and beliefs, even included Oriental designs (copied from wares that had been imported via Pacific trade routes). The results were too precocious to pass for primitive, and not subtle enough to claim genuine sophistication. But as two current displays of post-Columbian Peruvian art testify, at its best the mestizo style was both lyrical and inventive (see color opposite...
...trades earned the mestizo craftsmen better wages or higher social status than silversmithing. That they worked with surpassing skill can be seen in 210 examples of their wares, selected by the Smithsonian Institution's Richard Ahlborn, that go on view at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art this month. Silver was plentiful in colonial Peru, and Andean artisans used it for both religious and household articles. Grandees' stirrups alone weighed as much as 40 lbs., and in even the humblest Indian homes were found silver incense burners and boxes...
...Pito remains the faithful son of both Catholicism and the anticlerical tenets of the Mexican Revolution. At his most sacrilegious, he testifies to the faith; at his antisocial worst, he demonstrates that the republic offers the good life to its citizens. He reassures the Catholic, the republican and the mestizo; he is no atheist who would destroy the church or anarchist who would destroy the state. Like Lear's Fool, he demonstrates the madness of the King, but neither would nor could leave his service...
...PERU Working with the National Agrarian Reform and Cooperation Popular Volunteers will work with mestizo patrons to understand the campesino (rural peasant) and prepare the campesino for entry into social and economic life when he gets his own land. Specialists will work with Cooperation Popular in pertinent self-help projects...
...Portuguese colonists did not maintain themselves as rigid European minorities." They intermarried and became part of the Mestizo populations that form a dynamic part of the societies The civilization they created is what Freyre calls Lustropicalism...