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Peruvian Historians Today: Historical Setting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Fred Bronner*
Affiliation:
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Extract

The prosperous state of Peruvian historiography partly reflects the parlous condition of Peruvian historians. With full professors' takehome pay just over 200 dollars a month at Lima's Pontificia Universidad Católica rather less at the University of San Marcos, and with prices not that much lower than in industrialized countries, scholars scrounge for additional support. Moonlighting as a cabby is risky though definitely known among academicians; high schools offer extra hours to about a fifth of San Marcos' lecturers; and the Católica historians staff the university's general studies program for freshmen and sophomores. But the most attractive solution lies in promoting projects for foundations. That is one way for history to be written.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1987

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