![Zoila Mendoza](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk7031/files/styles/sf_profile/public/media/images/Zoila-Mendoza-934.jpg?h=771213b2&itok=0YkEhuro)
Position Title
Professor and Department & Graduate Program Chair
B.A., Licenciatura, Anthropology, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
M.A., Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Chicago
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Festivals, music and dance in the Americas, particularly in Peru and the rest of the Andean region, Quechua-speaking people's forms of Knowledge, Quechua language revitalization processes.
BOOKS
Zoila S. Mendoza,
Shaping Society through Dance: Mestizo Ritual Performance in the Peruvian Andes.
(University of Chicago Press, 2000)
Zoila S. Mendoza,
Creating Our Own: Folklore, Performance, and Identity in Cuzco, Peru
(Duke Unversity Press, 2008)
Visit Creating Our Own's Book Website
![Al Son de la Danza](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk7031/files/media/images/Libro%20-%20Al%20Son%20de%20la%20Danza.pdf_.jpg)
(Fondo Editorial Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2001)
Full Access to Text, Companion Video and CD:
![Crear Y Sentir Lo Nuestro](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk7031/files/media/images/crear-y-sentir-lo-nuestro%20copy.jpg)
(Fondo Editorial Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2006)
Full Access to text:
![Zoila S. Mendoza's 2021 Book](/sites/g/files/dgvnsk7031/files/media/images/Portada-Qoyllur-Riti-copia.png)
(La Siniestra Ensayos, 2021, print and e-book)
https://lasiniestraensayos.com/libro/qoyllur-riti-cronica-de-una-peregrinacion-cusquena/
Buy Kindle Edition on Amazon
FILMS
ANFASEP-Love and the Search for the Disappeared:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZE2QSqaYGo
Memory Walkers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3VHAfMBqGs
Caminantes de la Memoria:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUjYqWUYNyE
La Peregrinación al Santuario del Señor de Qoyllur Rit'i: La Experiencia del Camino:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj2FFF6gafw&t=2s
The Pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of the Lord of Qoyllur Rit'i: The Walk Experience:
https://www.berkeleymedia.com/product/the_pilgrimage_to_the_sanctuary_of_the_lord_of_qoyllur_riti/
COURSES TAUGHT
Undergraduate:
- NAS 125 Performance and Culture Among Native Americans
- NAS 110 A Quechua Language and Society, Beginning Level 1
- NAS 110 B Quechua Language and Society, Beginning Level 2
- NAS 110 C Quechua Language and Society, Intermediate Level 1
- NAS 110 D Quechua Language and Society, Intermediate Level 2
Graduate
- NAS 224 Performance in the Americas
- NAS 202 Andean Knowledges
LATEST PROJECTS: