Join host Rick Tocquigny and Global Spirit show executive Zoila Mendoza as they discuss this new travel show and why people travel for pilgrimages.
Zoila S. Mendoza is a Peruvian Anthropologist and a Professor and Chair of the
Native American Studies Department at the University of California, Davis. She
received her B. A. and Licenciatura degrees in Anthropology form the Pontificia
Universidad Católica del Perú and her Masters and Ph. D. from the University of
Chicago, also in Anthropology. Mendoza is the author of Shaping Society Through
Dance: Mestizo Ritual Performance in the Peruvian Andes, (University of Chicago
Press, 2000) and Creating Our Own, Folklore, Performance, and Identity in Cuzco,
Peru (Duke University Press, 2008). She has published widely in Spanish and
English on the subjects of Andean festivals, music, and dance, and ethnic racial
identity in Peru. She is currently working on a book about pilgrimage, music, and
dance among Quechua-speaking communities in Cuzco Peru. She has also filmed,
produced and edited a documentary film about the Lord of Qoyllur Rit’i pilgrimage
in Cuzco. She received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
in 2010-2011 for this book and film project. Finally, she is a member of the Social
Science Council of the Fetzer Institute though which she has funded, co-produced
and co-edited a film about the post-conflict situation in Peru.
This show is presented by Life Lessons from Family Vacations, debuting this month from Rowman & Littlefield Publishing. Purchase on www.shop.transformedtraveler.com with 40% off discount.