Constructing Collective Identities & Shaping Public Spheres Latin American Paths

by Roniger, Sznajder; Roniger, Luis

• ISBN13: 9781898723776
• ISBN10: 189872377X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

A collection of essays on the construction of Latin America's collective identities.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: Examining Collective Identities and Public Spheres in Latin America	1	(12)
Luis Roniger
Mario Sznajder
Part I Formative Trends
Patriotism and the Nation in Colonial Spanish America	13	(33)
David Brading
``A Stranger in a Strange Land'': The Conversion of Foreigners into Members in Colonial Latin America	46	(19)
Tamar Herzog
After the Fall: Constructing Incan Identity in Late Colonial Cuzco	65	(38)
David Cahill
Part II Collective Identities and the Reshaping of Public Spheres
Collective Identity and Democratic Construction: The Cases of Argentina and Uruguay	103	(20)
Alberto Spektorowski
The Transformation of Collective Identities: Immigrant Communities under the Populist Regimes Vargas and Peron	123	(25)
Leonardo Senkman
The Dynamics of National Identity Frames: The Case of Argentina in the Twentieth Century	148	(20)
Carlos Waisman
Human Rights Violations and the Reshaping of Collective Identities in the Redemocratized Southern Cone	168	(31)
Luis Roniger
Part III The Cultural Construction of Collective Identities
Who is a Chilean? The Mapuche, the Huaso and the Roto as the Basic Symbols of Chilean Collective Identity	199	(18)
Mario Sznajder
Shaping Collective Identity through Educational Reforms in Paraguay	217	(14)
Batia Siebzehner
Latin American Intellectuals and Collective Identity	231	(14)
Jean Franco
Part IV Comparative Perspectives and Conclusions
The Construction of Collective Identities in Latin America: Beyond the European Nation State Model	245	(19)
Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
Latin American Paths: Themes on the Research Agenda	264	(6)
Mario Sznajder
Luis Roniger
List of Contributors	270	(4)
Index	274