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Soap Operas for Social Change: Toward a Methodology for Entertainment-Education Television

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Harold E. Hinds
Hispanic American Historical Review (1994) 74 (3): 504–505.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-74.3.504
Published: 01 August 1994
...Harold E. Hinds Soap Operas for Social Change: Toward a Methodology for Entertainment-Education Television . By Nariman Heidi Noel . Westport : Praeger , 1993 . Photographs. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index , xxii , 143 pp. Cloth . $47.95 . Copyright 1994 by Duke...
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Los actores locales de la nación en la América Latina: Análisis estratégicos

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Christoph Rosenmüller
Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (1): 122–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-1902841
Published: 01 February 2013
...). She counters some US scholars who currently emphasize the relative success of these groups. Meanwhile, Edgar Iván Mondragón Aguilera traces the tactics of a Portuguese soap maker in an early seventeenth-century Inquisition trial. While the Holy Office in New Spain withheld the names of accusers...
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Comunes y haciendas: Procesos de comunalización en la Sierra de Piura (siglos XVIII al XX) El Norte en la historia regional, siglos XVIII–XIX

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Nils Jacobsen
Hispanic American Historical Review (2001) 81 (1): 162–166.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-81-1-162
Published: 01 February 2001
... the west coast between Mexico and Chile) of chinchona bark, tobacco, sugar, silver and soap, and the numerous backward linkages tying the entire gran espacio to the centers of such export complexes. What remains unclear in this volume—with disagreements between various contributors—is the precise...
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Nahua Fasting in a Series of Don'ts: An Interpretation of the Precontact Nezahualiztli Practice

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Julia Madajczak
Hispanic American Historical Review (2024) 104 (3): 371–401.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-11189874
Published: 01 August 2024
... of Huitzilopochtli. For the entire year before Panquetzaliztli, “they abstained” (moçaoaia) from eating food and from washing their heads with soap; they might also have avoided bathing. 21 However, nezahualiztli did not just serve to prepare for the intense contact with the sacred. On some occasions...
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Aztec Medicine, Health, and Nutrition

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Libbet Crandon
Hispanic American Historical Review (1992) 72 (1): 115–116.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-72.1.115
Published: 01 February 1992
... syncretism and anthropological misunderstanding. Thus much of contemporary Mexican folk belief remains consistent with the Aztec medical world view. This book is fun. It resuscitates a host of old debates like a soap opera. Was Aztec cannibalism really an adaptation to protein scarcity...
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A náutica e a ciência em Portugal: notas sobre as navegações A situação econômica no tempo de Pombal

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Dauril Alden
Hispanic American Historical Review (1995) 75 (3): 476–477.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-75.3.476
Published: 01 August 1995
... in promoting import-substitution industries, such as hats, leather goods, soap, and textiles; and the prominent role foreign-born entrepreneurs played in their development. In addition, Borges de Macedo observes that except for promoting export-oriented wines, the government neglected the kingdom’s agrarian...
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A Mexican Ulysses, An Autobiography

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William Madsen
Hispanic American Historical Review (1965) 45 (1): 131–132.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-45.1.131
Published: 01 February 1965
... as monotonous repetitions of a single pattern. “Everything there is washed,” he writes, “but with a soap that leaves everything tasteless, if not indeed contaminated by the aseptic odor, which does not prevent there being more sick people and more hospitals in the U.S. than in Europe. One might say...
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La ciudad impura: Salud, tuberculosis y cultura en Buenos Aires, 1870 – 1950

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Jonathan D. Ablard
Hispanic American Historical Review (2009) 89 (3): 535–537.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2009-026
Published: 01 August 2009
... dwellers’ behaviors. These campaigns sought to change how people exercised, greeted one another (a major target was el beso ), and drank. Likewise, businesses shaped the habits of consumers by connecting various products, including vacuum cleaners, soaps, and mostly useless medicines, to the prevention...
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Figure 2. This photo captures the aftermath of a raid on the hardware store “La Defensa,” located a few blocks south of the presidential palace in Buenos Aires. In this case, the police detained a merchant for hoarding bars of soap, which were immediately seized and sold to smiling women and other consumers that crowded the shop. Courtesy of the AGN, Departamento de Fotografía, box 1307, envelope 4, doc. 172881 (May 9, 1947).

This photo captures the aftermath of a raid on the hardware store “La Defen...

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in Peronist Consumer Politics and the Problem of Domesticating Markets in Argentina, 1943-1955 > Hispanic American Historical Review
Published: 01 February 2007
Figure 2 This photo captures the aftermath of a raid on the hardware store “La Defensa,” located a few blocks south of the presidential palace in Buenos Aires. In this case, the police detained a merchant for hoarding bars of soap, which were immediately seized and sold to smiling women and other More
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Looking for Mexico: Modern Visual Culture and National Identity

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Juan Javier Pescador
Hispanic American Historical Review (2010) 90 (2): 348–349.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2009-153
Published: 01 May 2010
..., while photographers with little appeal for the general public are studied in detail? Who could argue that Televisa’s soap operas and sitcoms, and the Alarma or the Santo movies did not have a much more significant role in the construction of particular Mexican identities than for instance Edward...
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Mexico’s Crucial Century, 1810 – 1910: An Introduction

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Mark Wasserman
Hispanic American Historical Review (2012) 92 (2): 370–371.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-1545899
Published: 01 May 2012
...; the story of Eugene Robertson’s 1835 escapades in a hot-air balloon; the relation of Jaime Nuno’s writing the national anthem in 1853; the tale of Julio Chávez López, an Indian socialist in the 1860s; the soap opera – like sagas of the Mexican payment of 300,000 pesos to the United States to satisfy...
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The Argentine Silent Majority: Middle Classes, Politics, Violence, and Memory in the Seventies

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Eduardo Elena
Hispanic American Historical Review (2015) 95 (4): 701–702.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-3161697
Published: 01 November 2015
..., including photographs, cartoons, magazine advertisements, and popular television shows (such as the soap opera Rolando Rivas, taxista ). Carassai employs these works to illuminate the shared assumptions, sense of humor, and understandings of morality that helped to determine what it meant to be middle...
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Transition Cinema: Political Filmmaking and the Argentine Left Since 1968

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David William Foster
Hispanic American Historical Review (2013) 93 (1): 148–150.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-1902985
Published: 01 February 2013
.... While there remains a certain measure of potboiler production in both Mexico and Brazil (the latter country is particularly notable for films that provide vehicles for soap opera stars), current Argentine films probably include the most professional, artistic, and socioculturally meaningful titles...
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Import-Substitution Industrialization Policies in the Dominican Republic, 1925-61

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Frank Moya Pons
Hispanic American Historical Review (1990) 70 (4): 539–577.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-70.4.539
Published: 01 November 1990
..., matches, soap, furniture, hats, and shirts. The intervention placed special zeal in making us consume goods produced by the American industry. The import duties on shoes, apparel, furniture, hats, shirts, soap, hides, cigarettes, and matches were reduced in the customs tariff decreed by the Executive...
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Palm Oil Diaspora: Afro-Brazilian Landscapes and Economies on Bahia's Dendê Coast

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Mary Ann Mahony
Hispanic American Historical Review (2022) 102 (4): 721–723.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-10025565
Published: 01 November 2022
... within Bahia's Black community, both as an essential ingredient in Afro-Bahian cuisine and in candomblé. Dendê also became an essential ingredient in soap. By the twentieth century, US-based naturalists and agronomists had become interested in dendê, and at midcentury industrial entrepreneurs began...
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History of Portugal. Vol. I: From Lusitania to Empire

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Susan C. Schneider
Hispanic American Historical Review (1973) 53 (3): 535–537.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-53.3.535
Published: 01 August 1973
... with Africa—which he farmed out—but soap, slaves, fish, coral and dyes. In addition he had the revenues from the three largest military orders plus a “subsidy” from the Crown. Following a topical organization within a basic chronological periodization, the author covers a variety of topics—cultural...
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Neill W. Macaulay Jr. (1935 – 2007)

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David Bushnell
Hispanic American Historical Review (2008) 88 (3): 493–495.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2008-333
Published: 01 August 2008
... all, became the subject of a classic Brazilian soap opera. Macaulay’s last two published books were a bit different. The Emergence of Latin America in the Nineteenth Century (1988), coauthored by Neill and myself, was a work designed to fill a gap in the survey literature, and which we originally...
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Closed-Door Imperialism: The Politics of Cuban-U.S. Trade, 1902–1933

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Mary Speck
Hispanic American Historical Review (2005) 85 (3): 449–483.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-85-3-449
Published: 01 August 2005
.... products enjoying the steepest discounts under the treaty (30–40 percent)—such as beer, soap, and shoes— managed to hold their own. The 1927 census found that Cuba’s breweries, soap factories, and shoemakers satisfied more than 40 percent of the domestic market in the mid-1920s. 59 The island’s...
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Marketing Modernity: The J. Walter Thompson Company and North American Advertising in Brazil, 1929–1939

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James P. Woodard
Hispanic American Historical Review (2002) 82 (2): 257–290.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-82-2-257
Published: 01 May 2002
... Advertisements for Lever soap—“the soap of the stars”— were based around the testimonials of Hollywood starlets like Barbara Stanwyk, Kay Francis, Irene Dunne, Ginger Rogers, and Carole Lombard. 83 Using the testimonials as a springboard, the advertisements promised the transformation of appearance through...
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The Mexican Communist Party and Agrarian Mobilization in the Laguna, 1920-1940: A Worker-Peasant Alliance?

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Barry Carr
Hispanic American Historical Review (1987) 67 (3): 371–404.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-67.3.371
Published: 01 August 1987
..., and was limited to textile manufacture and cotton-derived processing like soap and oil manufacture. Textile production was centered on two factories—La Constancia (completely destroyed by the forces of Pancho Villa in 1914) and the important La Fe plant, founded in 1898, which employed about 600 workers during...
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