Rascally signs in sacred places : the politics of culture in Nicaragua /

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"Anthropology meets cultural studies (popular and otherwise) and historiography with a remarkable theoretical and investigative depth. A wide range of topics includes the title essay on 19th-century culture; culture under Somoza (the elder) and resistance to that culture; Sandinista culture and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Whisnant, David E., 1938- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1995.
Series:H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
Subjects:
Politics and culture > Nicaragua > History.
Politique et culture > Nicaragua > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > Latin America > Central America.
Civilization.
Cultural policy.
Politics and culture.
Nicaragua > Civilization.
Nicaragua > Cultural policy.
Nicaragua.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page; Rascally Signs in Sacred Places; Copyright Page; Epigraph; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One The Past as Prologue; Chapter 1 Beautiful and Pleasant Land; Chapter 2 Rascally Signs in Sacred Places; Part Two Building a Cultural Apparatus; Chapter 3 He had an Odd Accent in Spanish; Chapter 4 Anything but Flowers; Chapter 5 Culture as Revolution, Revolution as Culture; Chapter 6 Political Theories and Cultural Realities; Part Three Four Case Studies; Chapter 7 Looting the Past; Chapter 8 A Prodigious Child of Nicaragua; Chapter 9 Ancestral Feats and Future Dreams.
  • Chapter 10 New Women and (Not So) New MenConclusion; Notes; Sources Cited; Index.

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