Negotiating Identities in Modern Latin America
- Publisher
- University of Calgary Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2007
- Category
- General, Human Geography, Popular Culture
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781552382295
- Publish Date
- Sep 2007
- List Price
- $39.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781552384145
- Publish Date
- Sep 2007
- List Price
- $39.95
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Negotiating Identities in Modern Latin America explores some of the ways in which people define their membership in groups and their collective identity, as well as some of the challenges to the definition and maintenance of that identity. This interdisciplinary collection of essays, addressing such diverse topics as the history of Brazilian football and the concept of masculinity in the Mexican army, provides new insights into questions of identity in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin America. The essays cover a wide range of countries in the region, from Mexico to Argentina, and analyze a variety of identity-bearing groups, from small-scale communities to nations.
Hendrik Kraay has gathered contributions from historians and anthropologists. Their individual methodological and theoretical approaches combine to paint a picture of Latin American society that is both complex and compelling. The chapters focus on the day-to-day construction of identity among ordinary people, from American nationals living in Peru to indigenous communities in Argentina.
With Contributions By: Gregg Bocketti Maria Eugenia Brockmann Dannenmaier Denise Fay Brown Maria Cecilia Velasco e Cruz Julie Gibbings Louise Guenther Ronald Harpelle Hendrik Kraay Jennifer Manthei Stephen Neufeld Marjorie M. Snipes
About the authors
Hendrik Kraay is an associate professor of history and political science at the University of Calgary. He received his PhD from the University of Texas in 1995 and held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia, 1790s-1840s (Stanford University Press, 2001) and has edited several other scholarly volumes.
Hendrik Kraay is a professor and head of the Department of History at the University of Calgary. He is the author of Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia, 1790s-1840s and has edited several other scholarly volumes.
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