...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...

...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 marveled at...

...Elizabeth Dore Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Sound recordings capture part of the excitement of oral history. By listening to the narrators' and the interviewers' voices, we hear their passions and their fears. And their deceits. We hear the mystery of their silences. Oral...

...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 new...

...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...

... 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...

... , $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-Mexican...

... 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 the oral...

... 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 states” (p...

... 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...

... 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 halting and inconsistent policy in...

...' books, and some interviews and oral histories. For instance, Benson scrutinizes the stereotypes that reemerged in cartoons (always eloquent embodiments of ideology) published during the revolution's antidiscrimination campaign. She also foregrounds the negrismo -based work of Afro-Cuban intellectual...

... early 1970s. Street Democracy is a significant contribution to the increasingly rich historiography of post-1968 Mexico. Mendiola García uses oral interviews, municipal records, secret police reports, and newspapers to reveal how the UPVA's members rejected the PRI-affiliated charro unions and their...

... 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 religion Candomblé...

... Diaspora and Identity: Japanese Brazilians in Brazil and Japan by Mieko Nishida addresses the complex and fluid issue of Japanese Brazilian identity primarily through the avenue of oral history. Building on the foundational work of Takashi Maeyama and, more recently, Jeffrey Lesser, the core of Nishida's...

.... Section 2 concerns the personal correspondence among miners, peasants, artisans, and small merchants of Chihuahua. French argues that the constant migration of people from rural areas to mining regions and urban areas in northern Mexico led to porous boundaries between the written and oral worlds, a...

... anthropologists in their creation. She also debates whether the tension between orality and literacy in native worlds means that discussing an “indigenous autobiography” is inherently a contradiction in terms (p. 7). Jimeno's theoretical reflections will prove useful to activist scholars committed to the...

... indigeneity in that not only does it explore local responses to mission life and the establishment of colonial relations, but it also focuses both on knowledge production through dance, weaving, visual images, and oral histories and on indigenous efforts to get full recognition as citizens and landowners...