|
|
|
|
|
 |
| |
 |
|
Negotiating Identities in Modern Latin America |
Edited by Hendrik Kraay
$39.95
August 2007
ISBN 978-155238-229-5
6" x 9"
320 p.p.
tables, maps, B&W illustrations
Turning Points No. 3
Latin American Studies
Multicultural Studies
|
|
About the Book
|
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.
Editor Hendrik Kraay has gathered contributions from historians,
anthropologists, and political scientists. 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 what might be called the day-to-day construction of identity
among ordinary people, from American nationals living in Peru to
indigenous communities in Argentina.
|
|
About the Author
|
|
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. |
|
Orders
For information on
how to order this book, please click here.
|
