Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America /

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Essays examine the relationship of honor in Latin America to issues such as state formation, modernity, the law, sexuality, and racial mores.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Putnam, Lara (Editor ), Chambers, Sarah C., 1963- (Editor ), Caulfield, Sueann (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Duke University Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social status
Law > Social aspects
Honor
Honneur > Amerique latine.
Statut social > Amerique latine.
Honor > Latin America.
Social status > Latin America.
Law > Social aspects > Latin America.
Latin America
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: transformations in honor, status, and law over the long nineteenth century / Lara Putnam, Sarah C. Chambers, and Sueann Caulfield
  • I. Liberalism, status, and citizenship. Private crimes, public order: honor, gender, and the law in early republican Peru / Sarah C. Chambers ; Community service, liberal law, and local custom in indigenous villages: Oaxaca, 1750-1850 / Peter Guardino ; The "spirit" of Bolivian laws: citizenship, patriarchy, and infamy / Rossana Barragán ; Interpreting Machado de Assis: paternalism, slavery, and the free womb law / Sidney Chalhoub ; Slavery, liberalism, and civil law: definitions of status and citizenship in the elaboration of the Barzilian civil code (1855-1916) / Keila Grinberg
  • II. Popular uses of the law. Trading insults: honor, violence, and the gendered culture of commerce in Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1870s-1950s / Laura Gotkowitz ; Sex and standing in the streets of Port Limón, Costa Rica, 1890-1910 / Lara Putnam ; Slandering citizens: insults, class, and social legitimacy in Rio de Janeiro's criminal courts / Brodwin Fischer ; Courtroom tales of sex and honor: rapto and rape in late nineteenth-century Puerto Rico / Eileen J. Findlay ; The changing politics of freedom and virginity in Rio de Janeiro, 1920-1940 / Sueann Caulfield
  • III. The policing of public space. The plena's dissonant melodies: leisure, racial policing, and nation in Puerto Rico, 1900-1930s / Jose Amador de Jesús ; Prostitutes and the law: the uses of court cases over pandering in Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of the twentieth century / Cristiana Schettini Pereira ; The stigmas of dishonor: criminal records, civil rights, and forensic identification in Rio de Janeiro, 1903-1940 / Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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