University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository Spanish and Portuguese ETDs Electronic Theses and Dissertations 8-27-2009 Indigenous Andean Women in Colonial Textual Discourses Sara Guengerich Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/span_etds Recommended Citation Guengerich, Sara. "Indigenous Andean Women in Colonial Textual Discourses." (2009). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/ span_etds/20 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Electronic Theses and Dissertations at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Spanish and Portuguese ETDs by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. INDIGENOUS ANDEAN WOMEN IN COLONIAL TEXTUAL DISCOURSES BY SARA VICUÑA GUENGERICH B.S., Advertising, Universidad Privada Franz Tamayo,1997 B.A., Journalism & Mass Communication/Spanish, University of New Mexico, 2001 M.A., Spanish, University of New Mexico, 2004 DISSERTATION Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Spanish and Portuguese The University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico August, 2009 iii © 2009, Sara Vicuña Guengerich iv DEDICATION A Phillip, mi esposo y mejor amigo A mi querida familia en los Estados Unidos y en Bolivia v ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the people and the institutions without whose help and support this dissertation would have not been written. I have been very blessed to have an excellent committee of studies, the love of my husband, and the unconditional support of the rest of my family. First and foremost, I would like to thank Dr. Kathryn McKnight, my dissertation director, for her invaluable help and encouragement during many years of undergraduate and graduate school.