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Preface and Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Examining Collective Identities
and Public Spheres in Latin America
Luis Roniger and Mario Sznajder
Part I Formative Trends
2 Patriotism and the Nation in Colonial Spanish
America
David Brading
3 “A Stranger in a Strange Land”: The Conversion
of Foreigners into Members in Colonial Latin
America
Tamar Herzog
4 After the Fall: Constructing Incan Identity
in Late Colonial Cuzco
David Cahill
Part II Collective Identities and the Reshaping of
Public Spheres
5 Collective Identity and Democratic Construction:
The Cases of Argentina and Uruguay
Alberto Spektorowski
6 The Transformation of Collective Identities:
Immigrant Communities under the Populist
Regimes Vargas and Peron
Leonardo Senkman
7 The Dynamics of National Identity Frames:
The Case of Argentina in the Twentieth Century Carlos
Waisman
8 Human Rights Violations and the Reshaping
of Collective Identities in the Redemocratized
Southern Cone
Luis Roniger
Part III The Cultural Construction of Collective Identities
9 Who is a Chilean? The Mapuche, the Huaso
and the Roto as the Basic Symbols of Chilean
Collective Identity
Mario Sznajder
10 Shaping Collective Identity through Educational
Reforms in Paraguay
Batia Siebzehner
11 Latin American Intellectuals and Collective
Identity
Jean Franco
Part IV Comparative Perspectives and Conclusions
12 The Construction of Collective Identities
in Latin America: Beyond the European Nation State Model
Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
13 Latin American Paths: Themes on the Research
Agenda
Mario Sznajder and Luis Roniger
List of Contributors
Index
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“An exceptional book, which for the first time decodes and explains the battles fought between imagination and reality in the construction of Latin America’s collective identities.” Tomás Eloy Martínez, Director of the Latin American Program of Rutgers University
“Deserves to be read by all those who take a serious interest in the construction of identity.” David Lehmann, Director of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge |
