New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico

Gledhill, John (EDT)/ Schell, Patience A. (EDT)

Duke University Press（2012/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780822351870
• DDC分類 322.40981

Full Description

Bringing together historically and ethnographically grounded studies of the social and political life of Brazil and Mexico, this collection of essays revitalizes resistance as an area of study. Resistance studies boomed in the 1980s and then was subject to a wave of critique in the 1990s. Covering the colonial period to the present day, the case studies in this collection suggest that, even if much of that critique was justified, resistance remains a useful analytic rubric. The collection has three sections, each of which is preceded by a short introduction. A section focused on religious institutions and movements is bracketed by one featuring historical studies from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries and another gathering more contemporary, ethnographically-based studies. Introducing the collection, the anthropologist John Gledhill traces the debates about resistance studies. In the conclusion, Alan Knight provides a historian's perspective on the broader implications of the contributors' findings.

Contributors. Helga Baitenmann, Marcus J. M. de Carvalho, Guillermo de la PeÑa, John Gledhill, Matthew Gutmann, Maria Gabriela Hita, Alan Knight, Ilka Boaventura Leite, Jean Meyer, John Monteiro, Luis Nicolau ParÉs, Patricia R. Pessar, Patience A. Schell, Robert Slenes, Juan Pedro Viqueira, Margarita ZÁrate

Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. A Case for Rethinking Resistance / John Gledhill 1
Part One: Resistance and the Creation of New Worlds 21
1. Rethinking Amerindian Resistance and Persistence in Colonial Portuguese America / John Monteiro 25
2. Rituals of Defiance: Past Resistance, Present Ambiguity / FelipeCastro Gutiérrez 44
3. Indian Resistances to the Rebellion of 1712 in Chiapas / Juan Pedro Viqueira 63
4. The "Commander of All Forests" against the "Jacobins" of Brazil: The Cabanada, 1832-1835 / Marcus J. M. de Carvalho 81
5. A "Great Arch" Descending: Manumission Rates, Subaltern Social Mobility, and the Identities of Enslaved, Freeborn, and Freed Blacks in Southeastern Brazil, 1791-1888 / Robert W. Slenes 100
Part Two: Resisting through Religion and for Religion 119
6. Millenarianism, Hegemony, and Resistance in Brazil / Patricia R. Pessar 123
7. Where Does Resistance Hide in Contemporary Candomblé? / Luis Nicolau Parés 144
8. Catholic Resistances in Revolutionary Mexico during the Religious Conflict / Jean Meyer 165
9. Gender, Resistance, and Mexico's Church-State Conflict / Patience A. Schell 184
Part Three: Rethinking Resistance in a Changing World 205
10. Tracing Resistance: Community and Ethnicity in a Peasant Organization / Margarita Zárate 221
11. Resistance, Factionalism, and Ethnogenesis in Southern Jalisco / Guillermo de la Peña 230
12. The Transhistorical, Juridical-Formal, and Post-Utopian Quilombo / Ilka Boaventura Leite 250
13. From Resistance Avenue to the Plaza of Decisions: New Urban Actors in Salvador, Bahia / Maria Gabriela Hita 269
14. Contestation in the Courts: The Amparo as a Form of Resistance to the Cancellation of Agrarian Reform in Mexico / Helga Baitenmann 289
15. Beyond Resistance: Raising Utopias from the Dead in Mexico City and Oaxaca / Matthew Gutmann 305
Conclusion. Rethinking Histories of Resistance in Brazil and Mexico / Alan Knight 325
Bibliography 355
About the Contributors 389
Index 391