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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"History, Latin American."”.
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The State of Culture: Institutional Patrimony in Post -Revolutionary Mexico
… Museo Nacional de Historia (National Museum of History) utilizes mural-art to situate the historical objects on display into didactic lessons that seek to cultivate ""civic consciousness"" in the visitor. The intertextual dynamic between the Palacio Cortes (Cortez' Palace), the regional history …
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Cali Pachanguero: A Social History of Salsa in a Colombian City
… in Cali sheds light on its diffusion to other Latin American cities, where it has also played an important role in developing transnational links and cosmopolitan sensibilities. This study anchors salsa's local adoption in the spread of Cuban-based antecedents to Colombia during the 1920s--50s, …
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Choro and Music Revivalism in Rio De Janeiro, 1973--1995
The choro revival had several results. Its immediate effect was to fill a void in the expressive culture of sectors of the middle class, serving as a basis for reestablishing their Brazilian identity in a politically and socially turbulent period. As a musical movement, it reinvigorated choro as a …
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Modernity in Brazilian Literature Written by Women: Maria Benedita Bormann and Emilia Bandeira De Melo (1884--1911)
This dissertation analyzes four understudied novels by two women writers, Maria Benedita Bormann and Emilia Bandeira de Melo. It focuses on the Brazilian field of cultural production as a system of power with two objectives. To uncover the cultural politics that regulates the struggle of the …
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Grammaticalization of Spanish 'De': Reanalysis of (De)queismo in Southern Cone Dialects
The findings of the study also suggest that dequeismo and queismo are variants of the same sociolinguistic variable in Southern Cone Spanish because both variants are regulated by the same linguistic factors, i.e., types of verbs, syntactic structures, grammatical person, and tense in the main …
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Rocking the Regime: The Role of Argentine Rock Music in a Changing Socio-Political Context (1970--1985)
"I further posit that the rock nacional phenomenon had a collaborative authorship, articulated through the (often unintended and unwilling) interaction of many individuals and institutions, including state, artists and public. Both the military men so demonized by many Argentines as well as the …
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Liberalismo Y Nacion: El Contradiscurso De La Narrativa De La Generacion Del 80
Su lectura del gesto fundacional de los fundadores de la nacion---todos liberales---es, entonces, de naturaleza netamente desmitificante. Visto su proyecto narrativo de esta manera, pues, las obras de Lopez, Cambaceres y Martel son una respuesta a los proceres nacionales en relacion con su proyecto …
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Ideology, Cosmology and Illness: A Miskitu Ethnography in Time of War
My working hypothesis is that the Contra-Miskitu armed conflict strengthened Honduran and Nicaraguan consciousness of belonging to one, indivisible society despite a climate of overt hostility between both populations. Both Miskitu aggregates contributed to the generation of a process of …
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Markets and Hierarchies in Late Colonial Spanish America: The Royal Tobacco Monopoly in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1752--1813
… lacuna with the reconstruction of the history of the Peruvian tobacco monopoly from 1752 to the second decade of the nineteenth century. I argue, contrary to the prevailing view, that the colonial state was effective in the extraction of rents. This result casts doubt on the alleged …
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Institutional Constraints and Bolivian Agrarian Development During the Pre-Agrarian Reform and Post-Agrarian Reform Periods
The examination of the political economy of the land redistribution according to the agrarian reform law shows that the insecurity and restrictive nature of land tenure defined in the agrarian reform law led to reduced capital investments, extensive land use and poverty. Less restrictive property …
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Structural Issues in the Three Requiem Masses of Father Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia (1767--1830), and the Requiem Mass CT 190, by Damiao Barbosa De Araujo, With Editions of CT 182, and CT 184
Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia (1767--1830) is regarded as one of the most important composers of the Americas during his time. In spite of the fact that his name frequently appears in the literature, there are few studies that describe and elucidate his style. The present study focuses on the unique …
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Music in Urban La Paz, Bolivian Nationalism, and the Early History of Cosmopolitan Andean Music: 1936--1970
… similar development has not occurred in other Latin American countries, including those with numerically significant Amerindian populations such as Peru and Ecuador. Moreover, Andean folkloric music has long functioned as a more prominent emblem of Bolivian national identity than other realms …
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Blackness and Periphery: A Retelling of Marginality in Hip -Hop Culture of Sao Paulo, Brazil
*This dissertation is a compound document (contains both a paper copy and a CD as part of the dissertation). The CD requires the following system requirements: QuickTime; Flash Player.
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Rimarishpa Kausanchik: Dialogical Encounters. Festive Ritual Practices and the Making of the Otavalan Moral and Mythic Community
Third, I illustrate through various ethnographic examples the multivocality, complexity, and versatility of ritual. Otavalan festive ritual practices emphasize collective participation, simultaneity of action and discourse, collaborative and contested meaning making, transformation, and …
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Memories of War: Race, Class, and the Production of Post Caste War Maya Identity in East Central Quintana Roo
… (1977:257) over twenty-five years ago, ""the history of the Caste War of Yucatan needs to be rewritten with more attention paid to the Maya version of the conflict."" By highlighting their own often-silenced views of history in relation to the Caste War of Yucatan, and by looking at the way in …
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Children of the Mexican Miracle: Childhood and Modernity in Mexico City, 1940--1968
"During the era labeled the ""Mexican Miracle,"" the child population grew each decade, in sheer numbers and as a percentage of the total urban population. The city was affected by the increasingly large presence of children and the urban milieu informed the generation of children raised in the …
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Mexican Peasants and the Mexican State: Reform and Continuity
State-rural poor relations in Mexico remained fairly stable (between 1970 and 1994) in regard to their political role and consequences for the majority of the rural poor. A small subset of the rural poor, those able, or potentially able, to compete in the national and international agricultural …
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Party System Competition and *Representation: Democratization and Redemocratization in Chile From a Comparative Perspective
… transformations of these particular patterns in Latin America, I take a long-term historical view that highlights the importance of four variables in the initial period of democratization: (1) the sequence of party-state formation; (2) the relative balance of executive-legislative relations; (3) …
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Unreliable Drunkards or Honorable Citizens? Artisans in Search of Their Place in the Cusco Society (1825-1930)
… traces the economic, social, and political history of artisans of the city of Cusco, Peru, from independence to the Great Depression. We stress the heterogeneous structure of provincial artisan sectors and reject the notion of an urban artisan class because a common social and political …
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The White Collar Republic: Patronage and Interest Representation in Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1889-1930
The purpose of the dissertation is to study the ascent of the state of Minas Gerais in federal politics during the Brazilian First Republic (1889-1930), with a special attention to the role played in this process by the internal unification of Mineiro politics that occurred a decade after the …
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