Catalog
Title | Catalog PDF eBook |
Author | University of Texas. Library. Latin American Collection |
Publisher | |
Pages | 756 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Latin America |
ISBN |
The Quest and Occupation of Tahiti by Emissaries of Spain During the Years 1772-1776
Title | The Quest and Occupation of Tahiti by Emissaries of Spain During the Years 1772-1776 PDF eBook |
Author | Bolton Glanvill Corney |
Publisher | |
Pages | 598 |
Release | 1915 |
Genre | Spaniards |
ISBN |
Journal of American Folklore
Title | Journal of American Folklore PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1132 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | Folklore |
ISBN |
The Return of the Native
Title | The Return of the Native PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca A. Earle |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 378 |
Release | 2007-12-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0822388782 |
Why does Argentina’s national anthem describe its citizens as sons of the Inca? Why did patriots in nineteenth-century Chile name a battleship after the Aztec emperor Montezuma? Answers to both questions lie in the tangled knot of ideas that constituted the creole imagination in nineteenth-century Spanish America. Rebecca Earle examines the place of preconquest peoples such as the Aztecs and the Incas within the sense of identity—both personal and national—expressed by Spanish American elites in the first century after independence, a time of intense focus on nation-building. Starting with the anti-Spanish wars of independence in the early nineteenth century, Earle charts the changing importance elite nationalists ascribed to the pre-Columbian past through an analysis of a wide range of sources, including historical writings, poems and novels, postage stamps, constitutions, and public sculpture. This eclectic archive illuminates the nationalist vision of creole elites throughout Spanish America, who in different ways sought to construct meaningful national myths and histories. Traces of these efforts are scattered across nineteenth-century culture; Earle maps the significance of those traces. She also underlines the similarities in the development of nineteenth-century elite nationalism across Spanish America. By offering a comparative study focused on Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Peru, Chile, and Ecuador, The Return of the Native illustrates both the common features of elite nation-building and some of the significant variations. The book ends with a consideration of the pro-indigenous indigenista movements that developed in various parts of Spanish America in the early twentieth century.
Our Lady of Everyday Life
Title | Our Lady of Everyday Life PDF eBook |
Author | María Del Socorro Castañeda-Liles |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0190280395 |
For Mexican Catholic women in the United States, devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe-La Virgen-is a necessary aspect of their cultural identity. In this masterful ethnography, Mar a Del Socorro Casta eda-Liles considers three generations of Mexican-origin women between the ages of 18 and 82. She examines the Catholic beliefs the women inherited from their mothers and how these beliefs become the template from which they first learn to see themselves as people of faith. She also offers a comprehensive analysis of how Catholicism creates a culture in which Mexican-origin women learn how to be "good girls" in a manner that reduces their agency to rubble. Through the nexus of faith and lived experience, these women develop a type of Mexican Catholic imagination that helps them challenge the sanctification of shame, guilt, and aguante (endurance at all cost). This imagination allows these women to transgress strict notions of what a good Catholic woman should be while retaining life-giving aspects of Catholicism. This transgression is most visible in their relationship to La Virgen, which is a fluid and deeply engaged process of self-awareness in everyday life.
The Shipley Collection of Scientific Papers
Title | The Shipley Collection of Scientific Papers PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Zoology |
ISBN |
A History of the Inquisition of Spain; Vol. 1
Title | A History of the Inquisition of Spain; Vol. 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Charles Lea |
Publisher | |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 2020-08-04 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 375240910X |
Reproduction of the original: A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea