...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...

... assert their power to self-­government, while the 340 HAHR / May central government sought to standardize its rule across the nation. At the same time, the natives continued to assert their own control over community lands and property...

...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...

... from Lisbon to the city of Rio de Janeiro. 35 When confraternities administered and governed the churches that they had built independently without external interference or involvement, conflict with parochial leaders should in theory have remained minimal. However, even self-governance could...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... ” (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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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. Between...

..., 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...

... “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...

... 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...

... self-representation, self-definition, and self-fulfillment. The transformation of Cuban sentiment from subordinate to Spanish ideals to a more cosmopolitan, modern way of being open to change, personal freedom, and an increasing sense of gender and racial equality occurred as colonial power...