In the Central Peruvian Sierra, one ritual has been performed since the 16th century. The "Dance of the Conquest" mixes together masses, processions, banquets, dances through the community, at the intersection of religion and politics.

Combining ethnography and history, Isabel Yaya McKenzie offers, in this layered article, a fascinating reflection on #longuedurée, #memory, and lived temporalities.

➡️ Isabel YAYA McKENZIE, Dimensions of Time in a Ritual Drama: A Historical Anthropology of a “Conquest Dance” in the Central Peruvian Sierra from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-first Century

👉 https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.16

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In an unconventional answer to a roundtable on her last book, **The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of Commercial Society**, Francesca Trivellato reads the echos of her subject in the recent installation of concept artist Christoph Büchel, "Monte di pietà," at the Venice Biennale.

➡️ Francesca TRIVELLATO, There’s More to Debt Than Meets the Eye
👉 https://doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2024.18

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This week, three new articles in the English Edition of #AnnalesHSS :

➡️ Francesca Trivellato reads a recent art exhibit at the Venice Biennale through the lens of her last book;

➡️ Renaud Morieux unveils and unpacks unread letters from the families of eighteenth-century French sailors;

➡️ Isabel Yaya McKenzie revisits the temporalities and layered meanings of a "Dance of the Conquest" performed continuously in the Andes since the sixteenth century.

All can be found here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annales-histoire-sciences-sociales-english-edition/firstview

We will present each article in more detail this week, below ⤵️

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