TY - BOOK ID - 4869871 TI - The bishop's utopia : envisioning improvement in colonial Peru PY - 2014 SN - 9780812245912 0812245911 1322512922 0812209435 PB - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, DB - UniCat KW - Indians of South America KW - Social planning KW - Utopias KW - Natural history KW - Material culture in art. KW - Indiens d'Amérique KW - Planification sociale KW - Utopies KW - Sciences naturelles KW - Culture matérielle dans l'art KW - Material culture KW - Ethnobotany KW - Social conditions KW - History KW - Culture matérielle KW - Ethnobotanique KW - Conditions sociales KW - Histoire KW - Martínez Compañón y Bujanda, Baltasar Jaime, KW - Indiens d'Amérique KW - Culture matérielle dans l'art KW - Culture matérielle KW - Martínez Compañón y Bujanda, Baltasar Jaime, KW - American aborigines KW - American Indians KW - Indigenous peoples KW - Social development planning KW - Planning KW - Ideal states KW - States, Ideal KW - Utopian literature KW - Political science KW - Socialism KW - Voyages, Imaginary KW - Dystopias KW - History, Natural KW - Natural science KW - Physiophilosophy KW - Biology KW - Science KW - Ethnology KW - Compañón y Bujanda, Baltasar Jaime Martínez, KW - Bujanda, Baltasar Jaime Martínez Compañón y, KW - Martínez de Compañón, Baltasar Jaime, KW - De Compañón, Baltasar Jaime Martínez, KW - Martínez Compañón, Baltasar Jaime, KW - American History. KW - American Studies. KW - Caribbean Studies. KW - Latin American Studies. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:4869871 AB - In December 1788, in the northern Peruvian city of Trujillo, fifty-one-year-old Spanish Bishop Baltasar Jaime Martínez Compañón stood surrounded by twenty-four large wooden crates, each numbered and marked with its final destination of Madrid. The crates contained carefully preserved zoological, botanical, and mineral specimens collected from Trujillo's steamy rainforests, agricultural valleys, rocky sierra, and coastal desert. To accompany this collection, the Bishop had also commissioned from Indian artisans nine volumes of hand-painted images portraying the people, plants, and animals of Trujillo. He imagined that the collection and the watercolors not only would contribute to his quest to study the native cultures of Northern Peru but also would supply valuable information for his plans to transform Trujillo into an orderly, profitable slice of the Spanish Empire. Based on intensive archival research in Peru, Spain, and Colombia and the unique visual data of more than a thousand extraordinary watercolors, The Bishop's Utopia recreates the intellectual, cultural, and political universe of the Spanish Atlantic world in the late eighteenth century. Emily Berquist Soule recounts the reform agenda of Martínez Compañón—including the construction of new towns, improvement of the mining industry, and promotion of indigenous education—and positions it within broader imperial debates; unlike many of his Enlightenment contemporaries, who elevated fellow Europeans above native peoples, Martínez Compañón saw Peruvian Indians as intelligent, productive subjects of the Spanish Crown. The Bishop's Utopia seamlessly weaves cultural history, natural history, colonial politics, and art into a cinematic retelling of the Bishop's life and work. ER -