Full Description
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. With Contributions By: Gregg Bocketti Maria Eugenia Brockmann Dannenmaier Denise Fay Brown Maria Cecilia Velasco e Cruz Julie Gibbings Louise Guenther Ronald Harpelle Hendrik Kraay Jennifer Manthei Stephen Neufeld Marjorie M. Snipes
Contents
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.
