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| Title: | Negotiating Identities in Modern Latin America
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| Series: | (Turning Points Series No.3) |
| Author: | Hendrik Kraay (ed) |
| ISBN: | 155238229X : 9781552382295 |
| Illustrations: | tables, maps, b/w illus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 286 |
| Weight: | .446 Kg. |
| Published: | University of Calgary Press - September 2007 |
| List Price: | 23.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Latin America: Cultural studies |
This book explores some of the ways in which people define their membership in groups & their collective identity, as well as some of the challenges to the definition & maintenance of that identity. This interdisciplinary collection of essays, addressing such diverse topics as the history of Brazilian football & the concept of masculinity in the Mexican army, provides new insights into questions of identity in nineteenth- & twentieth-century Latin America. The essays cover a wide range of countries in the region, from Mexico to Argentina, & analyse a variety of identity-bearing groups, from small-scale communities to nations. Hendrik Kraay has gathered contributions from historians, anthropologists, & political scientists. Their individual methodological & theoretical approaches combine to paint a picture of Latin American society that is both complex & compelling. The chapters focus on what might be called the day-to-day construction of identity among ordinary people, from American nationals living in Peru to indigenous communities in Argentina.
Introduction: Negotiating Identities in Modern Latin America. "Let Us Be Brazilians on the Day of Our Nationality": Independence Celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, 1840s-1860s. Performing the Masculine Nation: Soldiers of the Mexican Army, 1876-1910. Playing with National Identity: Brazil in International Football, 1900-1925. Merchants, Abolitionists, & Slave Traders: Brazilian Perceptions of the British in Bahia, 1808-1850. Cooking Class: Order & the Other in the Corporate Kitchens of Latin America. (Re)turning Home: Narratives of Bolivian Transnational Migrants. Race, Efluticity, & Class in Rio de Janeiro's Port: The Coffee & Warehouse Workers (Resistance Society, 1905-1909). The Brazilian Mulata: A Wood for All Works. The Cah: Place & the Identity of Chemax Maya. Creating Identity Out of Place: An Indigenous Community in Argentina. Becoming Nature's Defenders: Fashionable Identities & Subversive Community in the Mayan Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala. Index.
