UID:
almafu_9959712413202883
Umfang:
1 online resource (342 p.) :
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4 tables
ISBN:
9780822386476
Inhalt:
This collection brings together recent scholarship that examines how understandings of honor changed in Latin America between political independence in the early nineteenth century and the rise of nationalist challenges to liberalism in the 1930s. These rich historical case studies reveal the uneven processes through which ideas of honor and status came to depend more on achievements such as education and employment and less on the birthright privileges that were the mainstays of honor during the colonial period. Whether considering court battles over lost virginity or police conflicts with prostitutes, vagrants, and the poor over public decorum, the contributors illuminate shifting ideas about public and private spheres, changing conceptions of race, the growing intervention of the state in defining and arbitrating individual reputations, and the enduring role of patriarchy in apportioning both honor and legal rights.Each essay examines honor in the context of specific historical processes, including early republican nation-building in Peru; the transformation in Mexican villages of the cargo system, by which men rose in rank through service to the community; the abolition of slavery in Rio de Janeiro; the growth of local commerce and shifts in women’s status in highland Bolivia; the formation of a multiethnic society on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast; and the development of nationalist cultural responses to U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico. By connecting liberal projects that aimed to modernize law and society with popular understandings of honor and status, this volume sheds new light on broad changes and continuities in Latin America over the course of the long nineteenth century.Contributors. José Amador de Jesus, Rossana Barragán, Sueann Caulfield, Sidney Chalhoub, Sarah C. Chambers, Eileen J. Findley, Brodwyn Fischer, Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha, Laura Gotkowitz, Keila Grinberg, Peter Guardino, Cristiana Schettini Pereira, Lara Elizabeth Putnam
Anmerkung:
Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction: Transformations in Honor, Status, and Law over the Long Nineteenth Century --
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I. LIBERALISM, STATUS, AND CITIZENSHIP --
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Private crimes, public order: honor, gender, and the law in early republican Peru --
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Community service, liberal law, and local custom in indigenous villages: Oaxaca, 1750–1850 --
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The ‘‘spirit’’ of Bolivian laws: citizenship, patriarchy, and infamy --
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Interpreting Machado de Assis: paternalism, slavery, and the free womb law --
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Slavery, liberalism, and civil law: definitions of status and citizenship in the elaboration of the Brazilian civil code (1855–1916) --
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II. POPULAR USES OF THE LAW --
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Trading insults: honor, violence, and the gendered culture of commerce in Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1870s–1950s --
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Sex and standing in the streets of Port Limón, Costa Rica, 1890–1910 --
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Slandering citizens: insults, class, and social legitimacy in Rio de Janeiro’s criminal courts --
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Courtroom tales of sex and honor: rapto and rape in late-nineteenth-century Puerto Rico --
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The changing politics of freedom and virginity in Rio de Janeiro, 1920–1940 --
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III. THE POLICING OF PUBLIC SPACE --
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The plena’s dissonant melodies: leisure, racial policing, and nation in Puerto Rico, 1900–1930s --
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Prostitutes and the law: the uses of court cases over pandering in Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of the twentieth century --
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The stigmas of dishonor: criminal records, civil rights, and forensic identification in Rio de Janeiro, 1903–1940 --
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Contributors --
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Index
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In English.
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Geschichte
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Politologie
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
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Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1515/9780822386476
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822386476
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822386476
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822386476?locatt=mode:legacy
