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Núñez: Amante y brujo

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James W. Park
Hispanic American Historical Review (1978) 58 (1): 171–172.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-58.1.171b
Published: 01 February 1978
...James W. Park Núñez: Amante y brujo . By Pinzón Martín Alonso . Bogotá , 1975 . Ediciones Tercer Mundo . Illustrations. Bibliography . Pp. 121 . Paper. Copyright 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Rafael Núñez, Colombia’s late nineteenth-century “Regenerator,” continues...
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“En Plena Libertad y Democracia”: Negros Brujos and the Social Question, 1904-1919

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Alejandra Bronfman
Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (3): 549–587.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-82-3-549
Published: 01 August 2002
... and vocal residents demonstrated before the courthouse and police station, demanding thorough searches of every household in the vicinity until the brujos were found and detained. Suspicion settled on Pablo and Juana Tabares, a black couple living together, and on Domingo Boucourt, a former slave known...
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Measures of Equality: Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902 – 1940

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Lawrence Gutman
Hispanic American Historical Review (2006) 86 (4): 841–842.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2006-070
Published: 01 November 2006
... of color as atavistic and shaped subsequent legal and academic debates on “racial hygiene,” “positive” and “negative” eugenics, and race “mixture.” It also breathed new life into a mythology of racial archetypes that included the negro brujo (black male witch) and the ñáñigo (“African” cult member...
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Medicine in Mexico. From Aztec Herbs to Betatrons

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Alfred W. Crosby
Hispanic American Historical Review (1969) 49 (3): 607–608.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-49.3.607
Published: 01 August 1969
... and even valuable book, for he has lived in Mexico for some years and seems to know a good bit about the healing art, as practiced in his adopted homeland by M.D. and brujo . He has attempted to write a full-scale history of Mexican medicine, however, a task for which he is not prepared by training...
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Hawks of the Sun. Mapuche Morality and Its Ritual Attributes

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William E. Carter
Hispanic American Historical Review (1966) 46 (2): 222–223.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-46.2.222a
Published: 01 May 1966
... not to exist, and morality is a generalized rather than specific concept. Internal contradictions are frequent. There is a careless equation of certain Mapuche religious leaders with the Spanish duende, brujo , and curandero . No attempt is made to define these Spanish terms. Many references are made...
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Pampa Grande and the Mochica Culture

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Richard L. Burger
Hispanic American Historical Review (1996) 76 (3): 554–555.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-76.3.554
Published: 01 August 1996
... El Brujo and Huaca de la Luna, many less colorful but no less important studies of more mundane aspects of Moche society also have been made. While much of Peru remained inaccessible during the terrorist campaign of Sendero Luminoso, the north coast remained relatively safe, and research by Peruvian...
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Black Latin America: Legacies of Slavery, Race, and African Culture

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Stuart B. Schwartz
Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (3): 429–433.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-82-3-429
Published: 01 August 2002
..., bringing criminology and anthropology in close association. Making use of police records, Bronfman demonstrates that the reported ritual crimes of negros brujos led to a kind of “blood libel” and a to a hysteria that included lynchings on the island. But alongside the critical discourses of primitivism...
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Biography of a Sonic Archive

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Alejandra Bronfman
Hispanic American Historical Review (2016) 96 (2): 225–231.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-3484090
Published: 01 May 2016
... Press . Olmsted Tony . 2003 . Folkways Records: Moses Asch and His Encyclopedia of Sound . New York : Routledge . Ortiz Fernando . 1973 . Hampa afro-cubana: Los negros brujos (apuntes para un estudio de etnología criminal) . Miami : Ediciones Universal . Ortiz Fernando...
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The Melodramatic Nation: Integration and Polarization in the Argentine Cinema of the 1930s

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Matthew B. Karush
Hispanic American Historical Review (2007) 87 (2): 293–326.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2006-131
Published: 01 May 2007
... of Lamarque’s archetypical role, one of the most common was that of the tango singer whose romance with a wealthy suitor is blocked by his elitist family. This plot recurs in such films as El alma del bandoneón (Soffici, 1934), Besos brujos (Ferreyra, 1937), Puerta cerrada (Saslavsky, 1939), and Yo...
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Raining Blood: Spiritual Power, Gendered Violence, and Anticolonial Lives in the Nineteenth-Century Dominican Borderlands

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Anne Eller
Hispanic American Historical Review (2019) 99 (3): 431–465.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-7573506
Published: 01 August 2019
... flyers with a sketch of Heureaux hanging from a scaffold, lynched, captioning the image with the threat, “No criminal goes unpunished.” 121 In the borderlands, meanwhile, some considered him to be a witch ( brujo ) who might also have the capacity to shape-shift into any number of animals, even...
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“Barbados or Canada?” Race, Immigration, and Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century Cuba

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Aviva Chomsky
Hispanic American Historical Review (2000) 80 (3): 415–462.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-80-3-415
Published: 01 August 2000
... with slavery, and sharply criticized African religion, dance, and medicine. At the same time, the party “denounced the hunt of brujos launched by the white press as a subtle attempt to portray blacks as uncivilized and unfit for enfranchisement.” 31 At the other end of the spectrum of black political...
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Twentieth-Century Cuban Historiography

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Robert Freeman Smith
Hispanic American Historical Review (1964) 44 (1): 44–73.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-44.1.44
Published: 01 February 1964
... also Hubert H. S. Aimes, Slavery In Cuba, 1511 to 1868 (New York, 1907); and W. F. Johnson, The History of Cuba (5 vols., New York, 1920). 47 Cuba primitiva (Havana, 1922). Historia de la arqueología cubana (Havana, 1936). 48 Los negros brujos: apuntes para un estudio de...
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History and the Contours of Meaning: The Abjection of Luisa Nevárez, First Woman Condemned to the Gallows in Puerto Rico, 1905

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María del Carmen Baerga-Santini
Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (4): 643–673.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2009-048
Published: 01 November 2009
... &amp; Littlefield, 2007). 55 “La pena de muerte: Masones de Ponce piden anulación de esa pena,” La Correspondencia , 16 Jan. 1906, n.p. 56 For a discussion of the influence of Lombrosian ideas in other Latin American contexts, see Alejandra Bronfman, “ ‘En Plena Libertad y Democracia’: Negros Brujos...
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From the Counting House to the Field and Loom: Ecologies, Cultures, and Economies in the Missions of Sonora (Mexico) and Chiquitanía (Bolivia)

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Cynthia Radding
Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (1): 45–87.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-81-1-45
Published: 01 February 2001
..., 154, 167, 185, 202, 219, 236, 251, 266. Comprehensive censuses were recorded in the Chiquitos missions in 1767 and 1768, occasioned by the expulsion of the Jesuit missionaries. 13 Fischermann, “Contexto social y cultural,” 33–36; and Jürgen Riester, “Curanderos y brujos de los indios...
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