New approaches to resistance in Brazil and Mexico
By: John Gledhill and Patience A. Schell, eds
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780822351733; 9780822351870
Subjects: Protest movements; Social change
Description: This edited collection by scholars of both history and anthropology re-examines the concepts of resistance and the effect of neoliberalism from the 1980s to the present day comparing Brazil and Mexico, two of the largest countries in Latin America.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rethinking Amerindian resistance and persistence in colonial Portuguese America / John Monteiro; title: Rituals of defiance : past resistance, present ambiguity / Felipe Castro Gutiérrez; title: Indian resistances to the rebellion of 1712 in Chiapas / Juan Pedro Viqueira; title: The "commander of all forests" against the "Jacobins" of Brazil : the Cabanada, 1832-1835 /  Marcus J. M. de Carvalho; title: A "great arch" descending : manumission rates, subaltern social mobility, and the identities of enslaved, freeborn, and freed Blacks in southeastern Brazil, 1791-1888 / Robert W. Slenes; title: Millenarianism, hegemony, and resistance in Brazil / Patricia R. Pessar; title: Where does resistance hide in contemporary Candomblé? / Luis Nicolau Parés; title: Catholic resistances in revolutionary Mexico during the religious conflict / Jean Meyer; title: Gender, resistance, and Mexico's church-state conflict / Patience A. Schell; title: Tracing resistance : community and ethnicity in a peasant organization / Margarita Zárate; title: Resistance, factionalism, and ethnogenesis in southern Jalisco / Guillermo de la Peña; title: The transhistorical, juridical-formal, and post-utopian Quilombo / Ilka Boaventura Leite; title: From resistance avenue to the plaza of decisions : new urban actors in; title: Salvador, Bahia / Maria Gabriela Hita; title: Contestation in the courts : the Amparo as a form of resistance to the cancellation of agrarian reform in Mexico / Helga Baitenmann; title: Beyond resistance : raising utopias from the fead in Mexico City and Oaxaca / Matthew Gutmann.