...Ariel de la Fuente 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 HAHR 80.3_05 Fuente(503-536) 8/4/00 3:27 PM Page 503 Facundo and Chacho in Songs and Stories: Oral Culture and the Representations of Caudillos in the Nineteenth-Century...

... tend to generate controversy. What we had not anticipated was that some of us would hear Juan's speech as straight talking, others as high satire. 6 Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Sound recordings capture part of the excitement of oral history. By listening to the narrators...

...Daniel James; Mirta Zaida Lobato 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Family Photos, Oral Narratives, and Identity Formation: The Ukrainians of Berisso Daniel James and Mirta Zaida Lobato Diasporas always leave a trail of collective memory about another place and time and create...

...Michael J. Bustamante Cuba and Revolutionary Latin America: An Oral History . By Kruijt Dirk . London : Zed Books , 2017 . Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xvi, 287 pp. Paper , $27.95 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Admirers and critics have rightly...

... in the early 1980s by residents of Venezuela's largest urban housing project, the 23 de Enero in downtown Caracas. Coupling archival data and oral history interviews, the article reconstructs the protest and its context to show how residents balanced a formerly contradictory experience of electoral...

...Lina Britto Abstract This essay, based in large part on local oral history, uncovers the lived experience of the rural and urban popular sectors who participated in the 1970s marijuana boom along the northernmost section of the Colombian Caribbean coast. In particular, the piece narrates how the...

..., Rebekah Pite explores the model of domestic work portrayed by these two women in comparison to that of other Argentine homemakers and their paid help during the 1950s and 1960s. She does so by drawing from a broad source base that includes oral histories, television programming, cookbooks, magazines, and...

...Elizabeth Quay Hutchison This article examines the unique history of household workers' activism in Chile from the 1950s to the 1990 transition to democracy, drawing on archival and oral sources to argue that key alliances with the Catholic Church, Center and Left parties, and feminist...

... , $30.00 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Paulette Ramsay, senior lecturer in Afro-Hispanic literature and culture at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, presents in this book an original and well-researched thematic analysis of the oral literature and poetry of Afro...

... Press 2015 The Andes and native North America present a cultural landscape that confounds notions of a “great divide” between oral and literate societies. In the absence of alphabetic and hieroglyphic writing systems, native peoples in these two regions developed communications systems that defied...

... Oaxaca to figure out the relationship “among oral testimony, rights claiming, and identity formation in contemporary social movements” (p. 2). By doing so, she hopes to “provide a crucial window on the continuing importance of culture in politics and on the ways social movements organize and engage with...

..., the book gathers important primary-source information spanning from centralized institutional archives to particular minute books. Brodsky draws from sources as diverse as institutional and community records, oral histories, burial records, and pamphlets as well as an extensive secondary bibliography...

... oral worlds, a fluidity he also finds in the love letters that navigate both the oral and literate domains. Here French examines the value of the love letter as a cultural artifact. Linked with novels and the new sensationalist news press, love letters contributed to the construction of new...

.... Palechor is an example of the second type of tinterillo. He operated at the intersection of oral and literate societies, and he gained prestige and renown through his work as an organic intellectual. Rather than relying on external intermediaries, Palechor learned to manipulate legal and political systems...

..., the Stations of the Cross at San Fernando, or Luiseño decorations in the chapel at Pala. In the second part of the book, oral testimonies, petitions sent to California state authorities by mission Indians, and records and diseños of land grants in various missions speak of indigenous...

... twenty-first century. Mendiola García's use of oral interviews and photographs brings Puebla's streets to life, giving us a sense of the sights, smells, and quotidian rhythms of these dynamic public spaces. Those sources also shed light on aspects of the UPVA's history that written documents obscure...

... a decade after its first publication in Portuguese in 2006, it remains innovative both for its methods and its subject. Parés combines ethnography, oral history, archival research, and historiographic critique to decipher the complex genealogies of several important houses of the Afro-Brazilian...

... careful to conduct her interviews across generational, gender, and class lines. Also, Nishida integrated her traditional research effectively with her oral testimonials. In the end, it must be said that Nishida took on a very difficult task of scholarship and updated it. This is a valuable...

... devaluation of recent immigrants and benign concern with maternal health” to how in the 1960s Peruvian health personnel embraced family planning via IUD, oral contraception, and sterilization—despite legal restrictions and sometimes without women's consent (p. 79). Chapter 5 focuses on the government's...

... island before and after 1959. She employs a wide array of sources, including newspaper and magazine articles, state leaders' speeches and declarations, official propaganda, everyday anecdotes, visual culture, Afro-Cuban intellectuals' books, and some interviews and oral histories. For instance, Benson...