The Collective and the Public in Latin America: Cultural Identities and Political Order

The Collective and the Public in Latin America: Cultural Identities and Political Order
ISBN-10
1902210131
ISBN-13
9781902210131
Category
Business & Economics / General
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Authors
Luis Roniger, Tamar Herzog

Description

Sequel to the successfull CONSTRUCTING COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES AND SHAPING PUBLIC SPHERES: LATIN AMERICAN PATHS, taking up points of issue raised in the first volume. This book traces the interplay between th public structuring and regulation of identities and the creative processes of collective identification, appropriation and evasion of identities. It deals with the ways in which individuals and social groups have developed and enacted identities as cultural resources with different degrees of public recongition and political legitimation, and how these identities have had an impact in defining the boundries of social order and diversity. Leading scholars of Latin American societies, using a truly comparative approach, address major trends in current research and cover both colonial and contemporary Latin America. The interdisciolinary nature of the contributions permits a dialogue between historians, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists.

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