Creating Our OwnIn Creating Our Own, anthropologist Zoila S. Mendoza explores the early twentieth century development of the folkloric artsparticularly music, dance, and dramain Cuzco, Peru, revealing the central role that these expressive practices played in shaping ethnic and regional identities. Mendoza argues that the folkloric productions emerging in Cuzco in the early twentieth century were integral to, rather than only a reflection of, the social and political