Negotiating Identities in Modern Latin America explores some of the ways in which people define their membership in groups and their collective identity, as well as some of the challenges to the definition and maintenance of that identity. This interdisciplinary collection of essays, addressing such diverse topics as the history of Brazilian football and the concept of masculinity in the Mexican army, provides new insights into questions of identity in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America. The essays cover a wide range of countries in the region, from Mexico to Argentina, and analyze a variety of identity-bearing groups, from small-scale communities to nations.
Hendrik Kraay has gathered contributions from historians and anthropologists. Their individual methodological and theoretical approaches combine to paint a picture of Latin American society that is both complex and compelling. The chapters focus on the day-to-day construction of identity among ordinary people, from American nationals living in Peru to indigenous communities in Argentina.
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 305.098
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Chiefly originating from papers presented at a conference held at the University of Calgary, Jan. 30-31, 2004 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- ISBN
- 9781552384145 9781552382295
- LCCN
- HN110.5.A8
- LCCN Item number
- N43 2007eb
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- CaBNVSL
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- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (x, 285 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00604389 (OCoLC)183324632 (CaOOCEL)422057
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title Page 4
- Bibliographic Information 5
- Contents 6
- List of Illustrations 8
- List of Tables 8
- Preface 10
- 1. Introduction: Negotiating Identities in Modern Latin America 12
- Part I: Defining Nations 36
- 2 “Let Us Be Brazilians on the Day of Our Nationality”: Independence Celebrations in Rio de Janeiro, 1840s-1860s 38
- 3 Performing the Masculine Nation: Soldiers of the Mexican Army, 1876-1910 60
- 4 Playing with National Identity: Brazil in International Football, 1900-1925 82
- Part II: Foreigners in Latin America 102
- 5 Merchants, Abolitionists, and Slave Traders: Brazilian Perceptions of the British in Bahia, 1808-1850 104
- 6 Cooking Class: Order and the Other in the Corporate Kitchens of Latin America 126
- 7 (Re)turning Home: Narratives of Bolivian Transnational Migrants 150
- Part III: Race and Identity in Brazil 174
- 8 Race, Ethnicity, and Class in Rio de Janeiro’s Port: The Coffee and Warehouse Workers Resistance Society, 1905-1909 176
- 9 The Brazilian Mulata: A Wood for All Works 200
- Part IV: Community Identities 224
- 10 The Cah: Place and the Identity of Chemax Maya 226
- 11 Creating Identity Out of Place: An Indigenous Community in Argentina 246
- 12 Becoming Nature’s Defenders: Fashionable Identities and Subversive Community in the Mayan Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala 268
- Contributors 288
- Index 291
- Turning Points Series 297
- Back Cover 298
