Sobre el Indio Peruano y su incorporacion al medio nacional

Mexico: Secretaria de Educacion Publica, 1933. Paperback. xvi, 310, [2]pp., map, illustrations, wraps. Previous owner’s signature on front cover. Crease runs down the entirety of the front cover. Covers faded; spine faded with ink titling. Text in Spanish. Anthropological study of indigenous people in Peru, with the aim of addressing how best to assimilate indigenous communities to become citizens; Saenz responds to and is critical of Jose Carlos Mariategui’s analyses. Commissioned by the Mexican Secretariat for Education, the study was completed with assistance from major Peruvian indigenista intellectuals such as Jose Antonio Encinas and Luis E. Valcárcel. (truncated) Soon after the publication of this book, Saenz assumed a diplomatic post with the Mexican government in Lima. (Inventory #: 303587)