Preface
and Acknowledgments
1
Introduction: Creating, Negotiating and Evading Identity
in Latin America
Luis Roniger and Tamar Herzog
Part
I Space, Order and Identity
2
Space, Order and Group Identities in a Spanish Colonial
Town: Puebla de los Angeles María Elena Martínez
3
Territorial Hierarchies and Collective Identities in Late
Colonial and Early Independent Quito
Federica Morelli
4
The Legal System as a Touchstone of Identity in Colonial
New Mexico
Charles Cutter
5
The Implosion of the Spanish Empire: Emerging Statehood
and Collective Identities
François-Xavier Guerra
6
The Past in the Present. The Social Construction of Miskitu
Ethnic Identity in Sandinista Nicaragua
Claudia García
Part II Networks, Groups and Identity
7
Private Organizations as Global Networks in Early Modern Spain
and Spanish America
Tamar Herzog
8
Networks, Coalitions and Unstable Relationships: Buenos Aires
on the Eve of Independence
Zacarias Moutoukia
9
Party and Nation-State in the Construction of Collective
Identities: Uruguay in the Nineteenth Century
Tulio Halperin Donghi
10
Bullfighting Fiestas, Clientelism and Political Identities
in Northern Colombia
Cristina Escobar
11
Politico-Cultural Models and Collective Action Strategies:
The Pobladores of Chile and Ecuador
Ton Salman
Part
III Discourse, Practice and Identity
12
The Rey Común: Indigenous Political Discourse in
Eighteenth-Century Alto Perú
S. Elizabeth Penry
13
Passion and Banality in Mexican History: The Presidential
Persona
Claudio Lomnitz
14
The Teenek Indian and the Public Indian: Indians
and Public Spheres in Twentieth-Century Northeast Mexico
Anath Ariel de Vidas
15
Ambivalence Acknowledged: Jewish Identities and Language
Strategies in Contemporary Mexico
Adina Cimet
16 The Chilean Jaguar as a Symbol of a New
Collective Identity? Between Neo-Liberalism and Limited Democracy
Mario Sznajder
17
Conclusions: Collective Identities and Public Spheres in Latin
America
Tamar Herzog and Luis Roniger
List
of Contributors
Index
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