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Manners of distinction: nineteenth century urban imaginings, performances and bodies of affect in Havana, Cuba

Eguez Guevara, PilarUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2013

This dissertation offers an anthropological interpretation of cultural discourses about the body found in literature, visual narratives and archival sources throughout 19th century in Spanish colonial Havana. These discourses show a pressing concern with the “manners” of bodies, the ways they …

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