The collective and the public in Latin America : cultural identities and political order / edited by Luis Roniger and Tamar Herzog.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: International Congress of Americanists
Other Authors: Herzog, Tamar, Roniger, Luis, 1949-
Other title:Constructing collective identities and shaping public spheres.
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Brighton [England] ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, 2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: creating, negotiating, and evading identity in Latin America / Luis Roniger and Tamar Herzog
  • Space, order and group identities in a Spanish colonial town: Puebla de los Angeles / María Elena Martínez
  • Territorial hierarchies and collective identities in late colonial and early independent Quito / Federica Morelli
  • The legal system as a touchstone of identity in colonial New Mexico / Charles Cutter
  • The implosion of the Spanish empire: emerging statehood and collective identities / François-Xavier Guerra
  • The past in the present. The social construction of Miskitu ethnic identity in Sandinista Nicaragua / Claudia García
  • Private organizations as global networks in early modern Spain and Spanish America / Tamar Herzog
  • Networks, coalitions, and unstable relationships: Buenos Aires on the eve of independence / Zacarias Moutoukias
  • Party and nation-state in the construction of collective identities: Uruguay in the nineteenth century / Tulio Halperin Donghi
  • Bullfighting fiestas, clientelism and political identities in Northern Colombia / Cristina Escobar
  • Politico-cultural models and collective action strategies: the Pobladores of Chile and Equador / Ton Salman
  • The Rey Común: indigenous political discourse in eighteenth-century Alto Perú / S. Elizabeth Penry
  • Passion and banality in Mexican history: the presidential persona / Claudio Lomnitz
  • The Teenek Indian and the public Indian: Indians and public spheres in twentieth-century Northeast Mexico / Anath Ariel de Vidas
  • Ambivalence acknowledged: Jewish identities and language strategies in contemporary Mexico / Adina Cimet
  • The Chilean jaguar as a symbol of a new collective identity? Between neo-liberalism and limited democracy / Mario Sznajder
  • Conclusions: collective identities and public spheres in Latin America / Tamar Herzog and Luis Roniger.