|
Showing 1 - 11 of
11 matches in All Departments
This collection of articles has as its focus the Afro-Brazilian
culture of the state of Bahia in northeastern Brazil and its
linkage to politics during the 19th century and up to today. A
group of interdisciplinary and international scholars bring
historical and contemporary perspectives to central issues facing
Afro-Brazilians: their relationship to the state and the place of
Afro-Brazilian culture in the larger Brazilian society. Topics
addressed include the relationship between free and freed 19th
century Afro-Brazilians and the state, the black militia, the
candomble religion, land reform, and contemporary cultural
movements.
The essays in this book constitute an analytic survey of the last
two centuries of Afro-Bahian history, with a focus squarely on the
difficult relationship between Afro- and Euro-Bahia and on the
continual Afro-Bahian struggle to create a meaningful culture in an
environment either hostile or suffocating in its ability to absorb
elements of Afro-Bahian culture.
Press, Power, and Culture in Imperial Brazil introduces recent
Brazilian scholarship to English-language readers, providing fresh
perspectives on newspaper and periodical culture in the Brazilian
empire from 1822 to 1889. Through a multifaceted exploration of the
periodical press, contributors to this volume offer new insights
into the workings of Brazilian power, culture, and public life.
Collectively arguing that newspapers are contested projects rather
than stable recordings of daily life, individual chapters
demonstrate how the periodical press played a prominent role in
creating and contesting hierarchies of race, gender, class, and
culture. Contributors challenge traditional views of newspapers and
magazines as mechanisms of state- and nation-building. Rather, the
scholars in this volume view them as integral to current debates
over the nature of Brazil. Including perspectives from Brazil's
leading scholars of the periodical press, this volume will be the
starting point for future scholarship on print culture for years to
come.
In From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going B. J. Barickman explores how a
narrow ocean beachfront neighborhood and the distinctive practice
of beach-going invented by its residents in the early twentieth
century came to symbolize a city and a nation. Nineteenth-century
Cariocas (residents of Rio) ostensibly practiced sea-bathing for
its therapeutic benefits, but the bathing platforms near the city
center and the rocky bay shore of Flamengo also provided places to
see and be seen. Sea-bathing gave way to beach-going and
sun-tanning in the new beachfront neighborhood of Copacabana in the
1920s. This study reveals the social and cultural implications of
this transformation and highlights the distinctive changes to urban
living that took place in the Brazilian capital. Deeply informed by
scholarship about race, class, and gender, as well as civilization
and modernity, space, the body, and the role of the state in
shaping urban development, this work provides a major contribution
to the social and cultural history of Rio de Janeiro and to the
history of leisure.
Focusing on the military institutions (army, militia, and National
Guard) of Bahia, Brazil, this book analyzes the region's transition
from Portuguese colony to province of the Brazilian Empire. It
examines the social, racial, and cultural dimensions of
post-independence state-building in one of the principal slave
plantation regions of the Americas. Contrary to those who stress
the autonomy of the Brazilian state, this book documents the close
connections between the locally-organized armed forces and society
in the late colonial period. Racially segregated and mirroring the
class hierarchies of the larger society, these military
institutions were profoundly transformed by the war for
independence in the early 1820s. In its aftermath, the new
Brazilian state gradually built a national army, breaking the local
orientation of the Bahian regulars by the 1840s. The National
Guard, locally-oriented and democratic in its 1831 organization,
was turned into a state-controlled corporation in the 1840s. These
developments deeply affected the lives of the men (and women)
involved in the armed forces, and a main aim of this book is to
examine their participation in the complex and convoluted process
of state-building. The liberalism used to justify independence and
the creation of an imperial state resonated among ordinary soldiers
and officers, as it provided an ideology and language with which to
challenge important features of late colonial military organization
such as racial segregation and corporal punishment. Racial
discrimination, formally eliminated in the 1830s, shaped racial
politics in the military, while the construction of a national army
undermined the previously close connections of officers and
soldiers to the mainstream of Bahian society.
Focusing on the military institutions (army, militia, and National
Guard) of Bahia, Brazil, this book analyzes the region's transition
from Portuguese colony to province of the Brazilian Empire. It
examines the social, racial, and cultural dimensions of
post-independence state-building in one of the principal slave
plantation regions of the Americas.
Contrary to those who stress the autonomy of the Brazilian state,
this book documents the close connections between the
locally-organized armed forces and society in the late colonial
period. Racially segregated and mirroring the class hierarchies of
the larger society, these military institutions were profoundly
transformed by the war for independence in the early 1820s. In its
aftermath, the new Brazilian state gradually built a national army,
breaking the local orientation of the Bahian regulars by the 1840s.
The National Guard, locally-oriented and democratic in its 1831
organization, was turned into a state-controlled corporation in the
1840s.
These developments deeply affected the lives of the men (and women)
involved in the armed forces, and a main aim of this book is to
examine their participation in the complex and convoluted process
of state-building. The liberalism used to justify independence and
the creation of an imperial state resonated among ordinary soldiers
and officers, as it provided an ideology and language with which to
challenge important features of late colonial military organization
such as racial segregation and corporal punishment. Racial
discrimination, formally eliminated in the 1830s, shaped racial
politics in the military, while the construction of a national army
undermined the previously close connections of officers and
soldiers to the mainstream of Bahian society.
Official and popular celebrations marked the Brazilian empire's
days of national festivity, and these civic rituals were the
occasion for often intense debate about the imperial regime.
Hendrik Kraay explores the patterns of commemoration in the capital
of Rio de Janeiro, the meanings of the principal institutions of
the constitutional monarchy established in 1822-24 (which were
celebrated on days of national festivity), and the challenges to
the imperial regime that took place during the festivities. While
officialdom and the narrow elite sought to control civic rituals,
the urban lower classes took an active part in them, although their
popular festivities were not always welcomed by the elite. "Days of
National Festivity" is the first book to provide a systematic
analysis of civic ritual in a Latin American country over a long
period of time--and in doing so, it offers new perspectives on the
Brazilian empire, elite and popular politics, and urban culture.
Since 1824, Bahians have marked independence with a popular
festival that contrasts sharply with the official commemoration of
Brazil's independence on 7 September. The Dois de Julho (2 July)
festival celebrates the day the Portuguese troops were expelled
from Salvador in 1823, the culmination of a year-long war that gave
independence a radical meaning in Bahia.Bahia's Independence traces
the history of the Dois de Julho festival in Salvador, the
Brazilian state's capital, from 1824 to 1900. Hendrik Kraay
discusses how the festival draws on elements of saints'
processions, carnivals, and civic ritual in the use of such
distinctive features as the indigenist symbols of independence
called the caboclos and the massive procession into the city that
re-enacts the patriots' victorious entry in 1823. Providing a
social history of celebration, Kraay explains how Bahians of all
classes, from slaves to members of the elite, placed their stamp on
the festivities and claimed recognition and citizenship through
participation. Analyzing debates published in newspapers - about
appropriate forms of commemoration and the nature of Bahia's
relationship to Brazil - as well as theatrical and poetic
representations of the festival, this volume unravels how Dois de
Julho celebrations became so integral to Bahia's
self-representation and to its politics.The first history of this
unique festival's origins, Bahia's Independence reveals how
enthusiastic celebrations allowed an active and engaged citizenry
to express their identity as both Bahians and Brazilians and to
seek to create the nation they desired.
Press, Power, and Culture in Imperial Brazil introduces recent
Brazilian scholarship to English-language readers, providing fresh
perspectives on newspaper and periodical culture in the Brazilian
empire from 1822 to 1889. Through a multifaceted exploration of the
periodical press, contributors to this volume offer new insights
into the workings of Brazilian power, culture, and public life.
Collectively arguing that newspapers are contested projects rather
than stable recordings of daily life, individual chapters
demonstrate how the periodical press played a prominent role in
creating and contesting hierarchies of race, gender, class, and
culture. Contributors challenge traditional views of newspapers and
magazines as mechanisms of state- and nation-building. Rather, the
scholars in this volume view them as integral to current debates
over the nature of Brazil. Including perspectives from Brazil's
leading scholars of the periodical press, this volume will be the
starting point for future scholarship on print culture for years to
come.
In From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going B. J. Barickman explores how a
narrow ocean beachfront neighborhood and the distinctive practice
of beach-going invented by its residents in the early twentieth
century came to symbolize a city and a nation. Nineteenth-century
Cariocas (residents of Rio) ostensibly practiced sea-bathing for
its therapeutic benefits, but the bathing platforms near the city
center and the rocky bay shore of Flamengo also provided places to
see and be seen. Sea-bathing gave way to beach-going and
sun-tanning in the new beachfront neighborhood of Copacabana in the
1920s. This study reveals the social and cultural implications of
this transformation and highlights the distinctive changes to urban
living that took place in the Brazilian capital. Deeply informed by
scholarship about race, class, and gender, as well as civilization
and modernity, space, the body, and the role of the state in
shaping urban development, this work provides a major contribution
to the social and cultural history of Rio de Janeiro and to the
history of leisure.
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
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
|