Peruvianize

English

Etymology

Peruvian +‎ -ize

Verb

Peruvianize (third-person singular simple present Peruvianizes, present participle Peruvianizing, simple past and past participle Peruvianized)

1. (transitive) To make Peruvian.
   • 1968, Translations on Latin America, page 140:

     […] have to be done is Peruvianize the industry,

   • 2002, Gareth Williams, The Other Side of the Popular: Neoliberalism and Subalternity in Latin America, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 44:

     For example, while a number of the provincial indigenistas such as Luis Valcárcel proclaimed the need to Peruvianize Peru by fabricating prehispanic identities as foundations for the establishment of the modern nation and of national culture,

   • 2014, Eduardo Galeano, The Memory of Fire Trilogy: Genesis, Faces and Masks, and Century of the Wind, Open Road Media, →ISBN:

     Mariátegui believes that Marxism means human progress as indisputably as smallpox vaccine or the theory of relativity, but to Peruvianize Peru one has to start by Peruvianizing Marxism, which is not a catechism or the tracing of some master plan, but a key to enter deep into this country.