Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America

Author:   Sueann Caulfield ,  Sarah C. Chambers ,  Lara Putnam
Publisher:   Duke University Press
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Pages:   344
Publication Date:   08 June 2005
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Author:   Sueann Caulfield ,  Sarah C. Chambers ,  Lara Putnam
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.649kg
ISBN:  

9780822335757


ISBN 10:   0822335751
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   08 June 2005
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Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Transformations in Honor, Status, and Law over the Long Nineteenth Century / Lara Putnam, Sarah C. Chambers, and Sueann Caulfield 1 I. Liberalism, Status, and Citizenship Private crimes, public order: honor, gender, and the law in early republican Peru / Sarah C. Chambers 27 Community service, liberal law, and local custom in indigenous villages: Oaxaca, 1750–1850 / Peter Guardino 50 The “spirit” of Bolivian law: citizenship, patriarchy, and infamy / Rossanna Barragan 66 Interpreting Machado de Assis: paternalism, slavery, and the free womb law / Sidney Chalhoub 87 Slavery, liberalism, and civil law: definitions of status and citizenship in the elaboration of the Brazilian civil code (1855–1916) / Keila Grinberg 109 Trading insults: honor, violence, and the gendered culture of commerce in Cochabamba, Boliva, 1870s–1950s / Laura Gotkowitz 131 Sex and standing in the streets of Port Limon, Costa Rica, 1890–1910 / Lara Putnam 155 Slandering citizens: insults, class, and social legitimacy in Rio de Janeiro’s criminal courts / Brodwyn Fischer 176 Courtroom tales of sex and honor: rapto and rape in late nineteenth-century Puerto Rico / Eileen J. Findlay 201 The changing politics of freedom and virginity in Rio de Janeiro, 1920–1940 / Sueann Caulfield 223 III. The Policing of Public Space The plena’s dissonant melodies: leisure, racial policing, and nation in Puerto Rico, 1900–1930s / Jose Amador de Jesus 249 Prostitutes and the law: the uses of court cases over pandering in Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of the twentieth century / Cristianna Schettini Pereira 271 The stigmas of dishonor: criminal records, civil rights, and forensic identification in Rio de Janeiro, 1903–1940 / Olivia Maria Gomes da Cunha 295 Contributors 317 Index 321

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This book will change how we view the long nineteenth century in Latin America, as it allows the reader to weave into the same cloth the two strands that ran through, respectively, the liberal state and postcolonial society, namely, the drive to form citizens and the desire to maintain status hierarchies. --Teresita Martinez-Vergne, author of Shaping the Discourse on Space: Charity and Its Wards in Nineteenth-Century San Juan, Puerto Rico 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 in both 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, author of Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil All of the essays present fascinating analyses... The editors have provided a substantial service to professors by pulling this particular set of articles together in a single English-language volume, reasonably priced ... in the paper-back version... The writing is generally accessible and colorful... User-friendly and well-done. --Kif Augustine-Adams, Law and Politics Book Review The editors have crafted a volume that is intellectually rigorous, lucid in argumentation, and timely in the application of scholarly ideas. Even better, the arguments of these essays run together to a degree that is rare in edited collections... The result is a textual unity that makes for a satisfying read. --Joshua Rosenthal, History: Reviews of New Books This volume ventures beyond history and politics of nation building and delves into topics related to paternalism, gender, class, and racial discrimination issues, among others... This book is recommended for classroom use. --Colonial Latin American Historical Review This set of essays is an important contribution to the emerging literature on honour in the modern period and should be useful to anyone with an interest in the history of ideas. --Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Canadian Journal of History This fine collection of essays will definitely be of interest not only to historians of modern Latin American but also to those scholars of the human sciences who work on cognate issues of gender, honor, law, and the social construction of citizenship in other areas of the world. --Eric Van Young, American Historical Review This fine anthology examines a key concept in Latin American history and culture: honour... This is a very interesting book that is well organized and historiographically up to date. -- Osvaldo Barreneche, Social History


This book will change how we view the long nineteenth century in Latin America, as it allows the reader to weave into the same cloth the two strands that ran through, respectively, the liberal state and postcolonial society, namely, the drive to form citizens and the desire to maintain status hierarchies. --Teresita Martinez-Vergne, author of Shaping the Discourse on Space: Charity and Its Wards in Nineteenth-Century San Juan, Puerto Rico 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 in both 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, author of Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil All of the essays present fascinating analyses... The editors have provided a substantial service to professors by pulling this particular set of articles together in a single English-language volume, reasonably priced ... in the paper-back version... The writing is generally accessible and colorful... User-friendly and well-done. --Kif Augustine-Adams, Law and Politics Book Review The editors have crafted a volume that is intellectually rigorous, lucid in argumentation, and timely in the application of scholarly ideas. Even better, the arguments of these essays run together to a degree that is rare in edited collections... The result is a textual unity that makes for a satisfying read. --Joshua Rosenthal, History: Reviews of New Books This volume ventures beyond history and politics of nation building and delves into topics related to paternalism, gender, class, and racial discrimination issues, among others... This book is recommended for classroom use. --Colonial Latin American Historical Review This set of essays is an important contribution to the emerging literature on honour in the modern period and should be useful to anyone with an interest in the history of ideas. --Sonya Lipsett-Rivera, Canadian Journal of History This fine collection of essays will definitely be of interest not only to historians of modern Latin American but also to those scholars of the human sciences who work on cognate issues of gender, honor, law, and the social construction of citizenship in other areas of the world. --Eric Van Young, American Historical Review This fine anthology examines a key concept in Latin American history and culture: honour... This is a very interesting book that is well organized and historiographically up to date. -- Osvaldo Barreneche, Social History


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Sueann Caulfield is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. She is the author of In Defense of Honor: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early Twentieth-century Brazil, also published by Duke University Press. Sarah C. Chambers is Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of From Subjects to Citizens: Honor, Gender, and Politics in Arequipa, Peru, 1780–1854. Lara Putnam is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of The Company They Kept: Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870–1960.

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