| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 340 pages) |
| Contents |
Piety and public space : the cemetery campaign in Veracruz, 1789-1810 / Pamela Voekel -- Church, Humboldt, and Darwin : the tension and harmony of art and science / Stephen Jay Gould -- Black kings, blackface carnival, and nineteenth-century origins of the tango / John Charles Chasteen -- Cartas y cartas, compadre -- : love and other letters from Río Frío / William E. French -- Peddling the pampas : Argentina at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889 / Ingrid E. Fey -- Death and disorder in Mexico City : the state funeral of Manuel Romero Rubio / Matthew D. Esposito -- Images of Indians in the construction of Ecuadorian identity at the end of the nineteenth century / Blanca Muratorio -- Many chefs in the national kitchen : cookbooks and identity in nineteenth-century Mexico / Jeffrey M. Pilcher -- The new order : diversions and modernization in turn-of-the-century Lima / Fanni Mu, Oz Cabrejo -- From the ruins of the ancien régime : Mexico's monument to the revolution / Thomas L. Benjamin -- Racial parity and national humor : Carmen Miranda's samba performances, 1930-1939 / Darien J. Davis -- Oil, race, and calypso in Trinidad and Tobago, 1909-1990 / Graham E.L. Holton -- The dictator's seduction : gender and state spectacle during the Trujillo regime / Lauren H. Derby -- En el corazón del pueblo : Pedro Infante's funeral, the pueblo motif, and the contest over his legacy / Sal Acosta -- Nostalgia for the future : the new song movement in Nicaragua / Janet L. Sturman |
| Summary |
This unique reader offers an engaging collection of essays that highlight the diversity of Latin America's cultural expressions from independence to the present. Leading historians explore funerals, dance and music, letters and literature, spectacles and monuments, and world's fairs and food. These themes and events highlight the ways in which a wide range of individuals with copious, at times contradictory, motives attempted to forge identity, turn the world upside down, mock their betters, forget their troubles through dance, express love in letters, and altogether enjoy life. Th |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Popular culture -- Latin America
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Arts -- Latin America
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- General.
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
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Arts
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Manners and customs
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Popular culture
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| SUBJECT |
Latin America -- Social life and customs
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| Subject |
Latin America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Beezley, William H
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Curcio, Linda Ann
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| ISBN |
9781442212565 |
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144221256X |
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144221256X |
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9786613273215 |
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661327321X |
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1283273217 |
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9781283273213 |
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