... is provocative and thoughtful. And his critique of the roots of Spanish discrimination is effective. After all, as Manrique points out, how nonracist can a society be if it still considers it an achievement to become “white” or “Spanish”? Vinieron los sarracenos: el universo mental de la conquista de...

...) emphasized ends. That of Rosas emphasized means. But it has always been difficult to form an Argentine nationalism, since Argentines are heterogeneous. People came to the country before the nation developed and so have always had a colonial mentality which has to be “decolonized.” This book is to help...

...Jennifer Lambe Transforming Therapy: Mental Health Practice and Cultural Change in Mexico . By Whitney L. Duncan Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press , 2018 . Photographs. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi , 254 pp. Paper, $39.95 . Copyright © 2020 by Duke...

...Irving A. Leonard The Spanish Character: Attitudes and Mentalities from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century . By Bennassar Bartolomé . Translated by Keen Benjamin . Berkeley , 1979 . University of California Press . Appendix. Chronology. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp...

.... Centering the case of 13-year-old Irene Mestosini, it analyzes the prosecution of estupro cases through the paradigm of rape culture and victim blaming. It exposes how, by casting pubescent girls as malicious because of their physical and mental development, authorities blamed them for their assault while...

... set by the first taverns and wineries in Mendoza created models for other women to pursue. For all these reasons, women took advantage of opportunities in vineyards and taverns, thus advancing their own economic and mental emancipation. This study is based on unpublished documents in the Archivo...

...Cristina Rivera-Garza Copyright 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 On 28 September 1911 Luz D. arrived with her husband at the admissions office of the General Insane Asylum La Castañeda, the largest state institution devoted to the care of the mentally ill in early-twentieth-century Mexico...

... . Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Madness in Buenos Aires is a convincing and carefully researched study of Buenos Aires psychiatric institutions between the 1880s and 1980s. The author distances himself from recent studies that have discussed mental hospitals as very effective social...

... by Duke University Press 1997 In this fascinating monograph, the author examines the history of mental health ideologies and institutions as an avenue to explore the repercussions and ultimate failure of different modernization projects in Peru. While this sounds like well-traveled ground, it leads...

... solutions for national (and sometimes international) problems based on a military ethos (military mentality or spirit)” (p. xi). This thesis is not startling, but Nunn interprets it with originality and insight. Students of the Latin American armed forces recognize them as paths to political power...

... without “mental” and “cultural” emancipation. In other words, an awareness about the Latin Americans’ past thinking (i.e., the history of ideas) will reveal the sources and content of present modes of thought and consciousness. With this awareness, the Latin American can develop an authentic New World...

... Guatemala's long history of exclusionary nationalism is rooted in criollo mentalities. Her approach is cultural, intellectual, and interdisciplinary. While she uses the language of mentalities, what she analyzes is a bundle of subjectivities, discourses, and representations. Moving beyond homogenous...

..., at the same time, both more and less than what is usually expected from a history of psychiatry. It embraces more because, focusing on the historical evolution of a single mental institution, it offers a larger picture of social, political, and cultural developments taking place in Brazil during a century...

...Alfonso W. Quiroz Despite its unevenness, however, this volume finally provides the specialized researcher access to a collection of pioneering essays that contribute to a better understanding of the formation of the creole mentality in Spanish America. Lavallé, however, does not try...

... before 1880 stresses the “production-speculation” mentality of its entrepreneurs, who were oriented to taking advantage of momentary opportunities. This short-term profit mentality, he argues, discouraged long-term investments in export industries, and had much to do with the brevity of Colombian export...

... of science and medicine. Even as the literature on eugenics and the interrelated fields of maternal and infant hygiene, mental health, and public health in Latin America has grown dramatically since the publication of The Hour of Eugenics , Veracruz’s experience has received surprisingly little scholarly...

... the work of the Mental Hygiene League, an organization that mixed anti-immigrant attitudes with progressive ideas about de-stigmatizing mental illness. The League’s early success in expanding the therapeutic tools available to doctors was shattered by the politicization of professional activity under Juan...

... that the origin of all mental disorders could be discovered in the morphology of the brain or of the nervous system, and that the disorders had to be treated accordingly. 14 The Argentine elite looked to Europe, particularly France, as a beacon of civilization, and medical doctors were no exception. French...

...-to-interpret set of expressions consists of idolatry in the sixteenth century and sorcery in the seventeenth, both of which signify assimilation and rejection. Gruzinski traces the process of mental colonization throughout three centuries of often contradictory articulations of the changes suffered...

... offering general social and political analysis, in which the author is both inaccurate and misleading. Gil Yepes is perhaps best read as an insight into the mentality of the Venezuelan business elite. This mentality can be reduced to a number of related propositions. 1. The masses are lazy and easily...