UID:
almafu_9959712407702883
Format:
1 online resource (474 p.) :
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11 tables, 5 figures
ISBN:
9780822380788
Content:
Crowning a decade of innovative efforts in the historical study of law and legal phenomena in the region, Crime and Punishment in Latin America offers a collection of essays that deal with the multiple aspects of the relationship between ordinary people and the law. Building on a variety of methodological and theoretical trends—cultural history, subaltern studies, new political history, and others—the contributors share the conviction that law and legal phenomena are crucial elements in the formation and functioning of modern Latin American societies and, as such, need to be brought to the forefront of scholarly debates about the region’s past and present.While disassociating law from a strictly legalist approach, the volume showcases a number of highly original studies on topics such as the role of law in processes of state formation and social and political conflict, the resonance between legal and cultural phenomena, and the contested nature of law-enforcing discourses and practices. Treating law as an ambiguous and malleable arena of struggle, the contributors to this volume—scholars from North and Latin America who represent the new wave in legal history that has emerged in recent years-- demonstrate that law not only produces and reformulates culture, but also shapes and is shaped by larger processes of political, social, economic, and cultural change. In addition, they offer valuable insights about the ways in which legal systems and cultures in Latin America compare to those in England, Western Europe, and the United States.This volume will appeal to scholars in Latin American studies and to those interested in the social, cultural, and comparative history of law and legal phenomena.Contributors. Carlos Aguirre, Dain Borges, Lila Caimari, Arlene J. Díaz, Luis A. Gonzalez, Donna J. Guy, Douglas Hay, Gilbert M. Joseph, Juan Manuel Palacio, Diana Paton, Pablo Piccato, Cristina Rivera Garza, Kristin Ruggiero, Ricardo D. Salvatore, Charles F. Walker
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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List of Tables and Figures --
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Preface --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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Part I. Legal Mediations: State, Society, and the Conflictive Nature of Law and Justice --
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Crime in the Time of the Great Fear: Indians and the State in the Peruvian Southern Andes, 1780–1820 --
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Women, Order, and Progress in Guzmán Blanco’s Venezuela, 1870–1888 --
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Judges, Lawyers, and Farmers: Uses of Justice and the Circulation of Law in Rural Buenos Aires, 1900–1940 --
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Work, Property, and the Negotiation of Rights in the Brazilian Cane Fields: Campos, Rio de Janeiro, 1930–1950 --
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Part II. The Social and Cultural Construction of Crime --
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The Criminalization of the Syphilitic Body: Prostitutes, Health Crimes, and Society in Mexico City, 1867–1930 --
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Healing and Mischief: Witchcraft in Brazilian Law and Literature, 1890–1922 --
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Passion, Perversity, and the Pace of Justice in Argentina at the Turn of the Last Century --
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Cuidado con los Rateros: The Making of Criminals in Modern Mexico City --
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Part III. Contested Meanings of Punishment --
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The Penalties of Freedom: Punishment in Postemancipation Jamaica --
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Death and Liberalism: Capital Punishment after the Fall of Rosas --
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Disputed Views of Incarceration in Lima, 1890–1930: The Prisoners’ Agenda for Prison Reform --
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Girls in Prison: The Role of the Buenos Aires Casa Correccional de Mujeres as an Institution for Child Rescue, 1890–1940 --
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Remembering Freedom: Life as Seen From the Prison Cell, Buenos Aires Province, 1930–1950 --
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Afterword --
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Law and Society in Comparative Perspective --
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Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822380788
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822380788
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822380788
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822380788
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822380788
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