...Sonny B. Davis, Jr. When Men Walk Dry: Portuguese Messianism in Brazil . By Myscofski Carole A. . Atlanta : Scholars Press , 1988 . Introduction. Notes. Bibliography . Pp. ix , 209 . Paper . $11.95 . ( American Academy of Religion, Academy Series ) Copyright 1990 by Duke...

... to a higher authority within the Church, the actions of the local bishops often proved inconclusive. Even more than Canudos, the Joaseiro affair reveals the interplay of the messianic movements and national structures. The Church, in an organizational sense, played an important role in integrating...

... the development of the messianic mission idea embedded in Iberian culture from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, in an attempt to write “deep (longterm) history” ( Tiefengeschichte ) and to illustrate how nations, races, classes, cultures, or a church selects and adopts biblical messages...

... messianic beliefs. Rooted in Mesoamerican traditions of a cyclical cosmology, man-gods, and messianic prophecy, messianic expectations also incorporated the idea of the Spanish king as protector of local community structures. “Indian messianic hopes represented a primitive political irredentism: a basically...

... as the political and economic liberation of the ‘‘poor.” In other words, the ‘‘poor” had to be organized as a social class that could be elevated to the messianic subject in a historical process of liberation. Delgado draws on Dussel’s concepts to develop his own ideas concerning the messianic God connected...

... “European.” In chapter 3, Pompa significantly revises a major tenet of Tupi and Guarani religion in the sixteenth century by carefully dissecting the anthropological literature on Tupi-Guarani messianic movements. Pompa argues that the anthropologists who first studied the prophetic tradition among the Tupi...

... Faye argues quite convincingly that utopian aspirations and Messianic hopes have been permanent features of the Mexican ideological landscape, from the Aztecs to the present day. In Aztec times the Quetzalcóatl myth was apocalyptical and Messianic in character; the millenarian aspirations of the early...

... a messianic leader. Lilián Illades Aguiar argues that the rebellion resulted from “the consolidation and intensification of the process of Porfirian political centralization that was so detrimental to local autonomy that it was impossible for the people of the state to maintain their lives and social...

... certain pockets of the marginalized urban poor into society. They drew the line, though, at genuine participation. Conditioned by Aprismo’s authoritarian streak and messianic approach, García and his cohorts, as Graham depicts them, preferred manipulative, clien-telistic politics to participatory...

... create a democratic, multicultural society through socialism, and messianic, authoritarian movements that perpetuated the repressive and exclusivist power constellations that Peru had accrued during the colonial and postcolonial eras. His discovery of a heterodox José Carlos Mariátegui, subject...

... in British North America. His exploration of the messianic impulse in these Jewish settlements is fascinating in its own right and helps unite the collection by revisiting a topic frequently examined in part 1. Despite its virtues, the analytic schema of “Jew in America” is flawed. Sarna “explain[s] why...

... Christian experience within the Iberian epic tradition” (p. 81). Not only does Teixeira not “defend ultramarine expansion as a messianic mission reserved for Christians of Portugal and Spain,” but he produced “a poetic, messianic, and religious work that assigns a central role to the descendents...

... at the lowest level in a decentralized system, was greatly diminished by the disarmament of the sertão in 1930. The paper presented by Ralph della Cava of Columbia University, “Brazilian Messianism and National Institutions: A Comparison of Canudos and Joaseiro, ” examined two popular religious movements...

... worlds as it is seen in Herman Melville’s narrative. De Onís views Captain Ahab’s messianic struggle with the white whale in Moby Dick as an allegory of the confrontation between Protestant North America’s “righteous empire” and the decadent Spanish-speaking people. De Onís stresses that in Melville’s...

... the theoretician. Although he notes the standard criticisms of Ché’s shortcomings, he places those issues in a broader context which underlines his accomplishments and interprets his “failures.” His final assessment of Ché’s influence is quasi-Messianic: “Because he fought for the poor, and because he chose...

... and original ways by P. Fríkel and R. Ribeiro. R. Duarte adds to the growing list of case studies of peasant messianic movements, with a piece on the Pau de Colher rising of 1938 in the Bahian sertão; M. I. P. Queiroz provides a sociological analysis of the peasant dança de São Gonçalo in the same region...

..., Argentina and the United States are too much alike. For example, both have foreign policies imbued with moralism, messianism, and exceptionalism. But the hemisphere was just too small for two exceptionalist countries. In the end, Argentina settled for far less: it resisted rather than became a hegemon...

... that of an inquirer after, or reporter of, knowledge. For the benefit of readers who might otherwise miss the book’s messianic point, the volume is also equipped with a foreword by Dardo Cuneo reminding us of Frondizi’s political imprisonment and the text of a petition signed by forty-six variously prominent...

..., to anthropological views of Brazilian history. The opening essay is a complex and rather tortured structural interpretation of a messianic episode in 1963 among the Ramkokamekra-Canela (a Gé-speaking tribe of northeastern Brazil), originally reported by William H. Crocker. In the essays on ethnic identity, Cameiro...

.... The book also contains excellent analyses of the “new historical discourse” introduced by the conquest: the rise of the “messianic and evangelical imperialism” of writers like Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and Francisco López de Gómara; the opposed mystical, apocalyptic vision of pro-Indian writers like...