Rascally signs in sacred places
Subtitle: the politics of culture in Nicaragua
By: David E. Whisnant.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 569
Subjects: Politics and culture -- Nicaragua -- History; Nicaragua -- Civilization; Nicaragua -- Cultural policy
Description: "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 resistance thereto; 19th-century looting of antiquities; gender; the political cultures surrounding Rubén Dario and Augusto Sandino; and effective introductory and concluding remarks"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 511-540) and index.