...Winifred Tate Death Squads or Self Defense Forces? How Paramilitary Groups Emerge and Challenge Democracy in Latin America . By Mazzei Julie . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2009 . Map. Table. Notes. Bibliography. Index . 261 pp. Paper, $22.50 . Copyright...

...Susan Kellogg After Moctezuma: Indigenous Politics and Self-Government in Mexico City, 1524–1730 . By Connell William F. . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2011 . Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xviii, 316 pp. Cloth , $45.00 . Copyright...

...Judith Laikin Elkin Jews of the Amazon: Self-Exile in Earthly Paradise. By ariel segal. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1999. Photographs. Maps. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xxiii, 341 pp. Cloth,$29.95. 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 HAHR 81.3/4-14 Book Reviews...

...Patrick Barr-Melej Duke University Press 2006 Siloísmo and the Self in Allende’s Chile: Youth, “Total Revolution,” and the Roots of the Humanist Movement Patrick Barr-Melej Silo’s “sermon on the mount,” as some later called it, took place high up in the Andes mountains near...

...John Soluri A Camera in the Garden of Eden: The Self-Forging of a Banana Republic . By Coleman Kevin . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2016 . Photographs. Plates. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 312 pp. Paper , $27.95 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

... self-governance could come under attack for black confraternities when changes in diocesan leadership and personnel occurred. Celia Borges reports one such instance when a new parish priest arrived to São João del Rei, in colonial Minas Gerais. He quickly understood that the church in which he served...

...Bryan McCann This article explores the nature and influence of the satirical journalism of Sérgio Porto, alias Stanislaw Ponte Preta, in Brazil from 1964 to 1968. Porto’s daily column in the Última Hora newspaper lampooned the Brazilian military dictatorship for its corruption, self-satisfaction...

... “mulato” to their ethnic or racial dimensions as part of a self-enclosed system of classification, because such usages were embedded in broader schemes of perception and categorization that both antedated the Spanish invasion of the Americas and continued to be employed on the Iberian Peninsula. In...

... ” (mother of Brazilians), her embodiment of the female virtues of tenderness, caring, and self-sacrifice made her the perfect exemplar of the patricias’ movement and of delicate citizenship. Copyright 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Patrícias, Patriarchy, and Popular Demobilization: Gender and...

... Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) following his deportation from Peru in October 1923. This study shows that personal experiences of self-transformation in exile were necessary for young APRA pioneers to break away from their pasts before they could create novel political philosophies that aimed to transform Peru...

... concepts developed by European philosophers (Pascal, Fichte, Hegel, Dilthey, Renan, Ortega y Gasset, and Croce) but which was singularly Peruvian, since as an affirmative historicist apprehension of the collective subject or self named “Peru” it was “homologous with its own formation.” Nevertheless, this...

..., national adulthood, self-expression, and the exuberant enjoyment of life. While the article focuses mostly on celebratory meanings, it also briefly examines the positions of ultra-Catholics and of feminists, who, from very different perspectives, raised the most critical voices against the destape...

... these campaigns long before any capital transformations encroached on their own territory. The essay analyzes the spiritual, political, and geographic logic of self-rule that these individuals invoked and also, critically, the gendered cost of violence that these campaigns fostered. The success of these...

... conditions imposed on their lives. This article argues that they fundamentally shaped Potosí's labor system. I analyze, then, the interaction between coerced and free labor— mitayos and mingas —and emphasize their interconnection with k'ajchas (self-employed workers) and the rudimentary ore mills known as...

... various forms of water play that transgressed the boundaries between the sexes but tended to respect other social hierarchies. After independence, authorities and members of a self-proclaimed “civilized” elite sought to repress what they condemned as a “barbarous” game. These efforts obtained some success...

... capture a particular image. After attending to the ways that the striking workers self-consciously and photographically asserted themselves — as employees, citizens, and devout Catholics — I outline a methodological framework for historians of Latin America who wish to engage with photographs, a source...

... collective storytelling to construct ideas of whiteness and blackness in modern Argentina and to shape individual fates; it also offers a critical counternarrative of black presence and self-fashioned celebrity in a period for which the historical scholarship on Afro-Argentines has been scarce. Copyright...

... treatment of racial identification as a fixed and self-evident determinant of social status or behavior, we treat it as a flexible social outcome. We find that though white identification is largely shaped by skin color, it is also shaped by national context, social status, and age. We discover that white...

... primacy of ethnicity, language, color, or racial self-identification to an understanding of the often-elusive concept called race and its importance in the Latin American social structure. All these perspectives have captured important aspects of the issue, but all also in some ways fall short, leaving...