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...Harold E. Hinds Soap Operas for Social Change: Toward a Methodology for Entertainment-Education Television . By Nariman Heidi Noel . Westport : Praeger , 1993 . Photographs. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index , xxii , 143 pp. Cloth . $47.95 . Copyright 1994 by Duke...

...] used, she would say ‘Juanita, I’m not done yet!’ “ 76 Like Magdalena, several other Argentines with limited means also mentioned that they watched the program more for entertainment than to learn what to cook. Some pointed to their interest in Doña Petrona and Juanita’s elegant outfits, large pearl...

... Neves, Moreno, Donga, Pixinguinha, Brancura, and Ismael Silva are among the musicians discussed here. By interpreting malandragem as a response to the ideologia da vadiagem, and as one of many identities and strategies employed by black entertainers, the article provides unique insights about...

..., for example, witnessed both Charles A. Lindbergh’s solo transatlantic flight and the first “talkie,” The Jazz Singer — but together ushered in an “entertainment century” (p. 6) defined by the globalization of U.S. capital and culture. The film, which Schwartz calls “an interpretive key to the twentieth...

...Ivie E. Cadenhead, Jr. This is a worthwhile book for students of Latin American history and should be a most entertaining book for the general reader. Cerwin writes clearly, interestingly, and well. The University of Oklahoma Press has done its usual excellent job in the preparation...

..., religion oriented culture there had developed a combination of drama and dance, both comic and serious, set to musical accompaniment, which not only delighted the masses, but also served as a part of the literary entertainments the great lords traditionally held for their fellow princes. In the second...

... history profound. I have neither the knowledge nor the talent for this. I can make it entertaining.” Yet his private notations also reveal Prescott’s profound contempt for inaccuracy and distortion in historical writing and his virtual passion for objectivity. He declares, “facts, facts . . . are what I...

... introduce each subject, Neil’s entries written over a 20 year period “finish the story, elaborate on the subject, speculate, interpret, or entertain” (p. 12). Neil writes, “my father was the sole ethnographer to visit, survey, and inventory their campsites . . . I thought the diary should be published...

... urban factories from working-class discontents. The most entertaining passage in this book describes a series of bandits and bandit chiefs, some of legendary repute: the Plateados of Morelos; Chucho “el Roto” Arriaga, famed kidnapper of priests; the Thunderbolt of Sinaloa, Heraclio Bernal. Some...

...Charles R. Ewen There is little to criticize in this translation. It is interesting and entertaining to read and should appeal to Spanish colonial historians, archaeologists, or those that just enjoy a ripping yarn of adventure on the high seas. As for the compelling human drama, I was struck...

... the Chilean Left, and polarizing Chilean politics. Third, the Christian Democrats proactively courted US intervention, and Frei's more conservative wing of the party was willing to sacrifice democratic process (even entertaining the idea of a military coup in 1970) to prevent a leftist victory. Given...

... description of what that means for the tourism destinations under analysis. What exactly has been packaged for tourists and how they experienced it is not examined, beyond vague references to golf courses, nightclub entertainment, U.S. cuisine, and U.S.-like accommodations and amenities. Packaged...

... range from emotions to material culture and from work and entertainment to diet and medicine. There are very few diaries or collections of private correspondence for this period in Argentine history and, as a result, ingenuity is required of modern investigators interested in private life. Cicerchia...

... and entertaining is the way that it approaches the topic. The author uses the life, and especially the career, of the iconic figure Petrona C. de Gandulfo (better known as Doña Petrona) to examine the changing role of food, food consumption, cooking, and women (especially of the middle classes) between the 1930s...

...), entertainments, and death. Dress, the house, and entertainments merit the most attention; death and culture the least. The effect, it must be said, is somewhat static, rather like looking at a succession of picture slides. But how striking are some of the scenes presented! King Dom João I, we are told, took...

... the ingredients of a “game of life,” as perceived by the descendants of the West Central African slaves, even as the ethnic and racial background of the capoeiras became more diverse. The capoeiras organized public contests for entertainment. They played capoeira in military and religious processions and scorned...

... objective, perhaps, to please those who identified themselves actively or indirectly with the Spanish Republic, who entertained hopes and aspirations for a new Spain and who suffered, as time went on, years of hopeless struggle and heartbreaking, final defeat. Neither will it please the victors, who...

...Drew Ridge A tongue-in-cheek travelogue for the inexperienced tourist, Bill Mack’s “bachelor’s guide” is an entertaining book. Mincing no words, the author concisely discusses the well-known and the less publicised “facts” of Mexican life. Mack’s only failing is an inadequate description...

... A welcome addition to the growing number of reprinted nineteenth-century travel accounts. Although often marred by false erudition, Ewbank’s work is both entertaining and insightful. The urbane American was especially fascinated by religious festivals and slave life. Most of his experience was limited...

... written, for the layman, a fast moving and entertaining account of the Mexican Revolution from 1910 to 1915. Since the author devoted less than 4 pages to the years 1916-1919 these years should have been excluded from the title. As it lacks footnotes, a bibliography, or any noteworthy original research...