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Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America
Contributor(s): Caulfield, Sueann (Editor), Chambers, Sarah C. (Editor), Putnam, Lara (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0822335751     ISBN-13: 9780822335757
Publisher: Duke University Press
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Published: June 2005
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Annotation: ""Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America" makes an important contribution to the historical understanding of 'honor' by examining its relationship to state formation, the law, sexuality, and racial mores. The creative and interesting essays, from scholars based both in Latin America and elsewhere, show the interplay of national and regional culture in how honor was understood and used in day-to-day social relations."--Jeffrey Lesser, "Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil"
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | History & Theory - General
- Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy
- Political Science | Civics & Citizenship
Dewey: 340.115
LCCN: 2004029836
Physical Information: 344 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Latin America
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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This collection brings together recent scholarship that examines how understandings of honor changed in Latin America between political independence in the early nineteenth century and the rise of nationalist challenges to liberalism in the 1930s. These rich historical case studies reveal the uneven processes through which ideas of honor and status came to depend more on achievements such as education and employment and less on the birthright privileges that were the mainstays of honor during the colonial period. Whether considering court battles over lost virginity or police conflicts with prostitutes, vagrants, and the poor over public decorum, the contributors illuminate shifting ideas about public and private spheres, changing conceptions of race, the growing intervention of the state in defining and arbitrating individual reputations, and the enduring role of patriarchy in apportioning both honor and legal rights.

Each essay examines honor in the context of specific historical processes, including early republican nation-building in Peru; the transformation in Mexican villages of the cargo system, by which men rose in rank through service to the community; the abolition of slavery in Rio de Janeiro; the growth of local commerce and shifts in women's status in highland Bolivia; the formation of a multiethnic society on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast; and the development of nationalist cultural responses to U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico. By connecting liberal projects that aimed to modernize law and society with popular understandings of honor and status, this volume sheds new light on broad changes and continuities in Latin America over the course of the long nineteenth century.

Contributors. Jos Amador de Jesus, Rossana Barrag n, Sueann Caulfield, Sidney Chalhoub, Sarah C. Chambers, Eileen J. Findley, Brodwyn Fischer, Ol via Maria Gomes da Cunha, Laura Gotkowitz, Keila Grinberg, Peter Guardino, Cristiana Schettini Pereira, Lara Elizabeth Putnam
 
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