Overview

Bringing together historically and ethnographically grounded studies of the social and political life of Brazil and Mexico, this collection of essays revitalizes resistance as an area of study. Resistance studies boomed in the 1980s and then was subject to a wave of critique in the 1990s. Covering the colonial period to the present day, the case studies in this collection suggest that, even if much of that critique was justified, resistance remains a useful analytic rubric. The collection has three sections, each of which is preceded by a short introduction. A section focused on religious institutions and movements is bracketed by one featuring historical studies from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries and another gathering more contemporary, ethnographically-based studies. Introducing the collection, the anthropologist John Gledhill traces the debates about resistance studies. In the conclusion, Alan Knight provides a historian’s perspective on the broader implications of the contributors’ findings. Contributors. Helga Baitenmann, Marcus J. M. de Carvalho, Guillermo de la PeÑa, John Gledhill, Matthew Gutmann, Maria Gabriela Hita, Alan Knight, Ilka Boaventura Leite, Jean Meyer, John Monteiro, Luis Nicolau ParÉs, Patricia R. Pessar, Patience A. Schell, Robert Slenes, Juan Pedro Viqueira, Margarita ZÁrate

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Author:   John Gledhill ,  Patience A. Schell
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.730kg
ISBN:  

9780822351733

ISBN 10:   0822351730
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   16 March 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments ix Introduction. A Case for Rethinking Resistance / John Gledhill 1 Part One: Resistance and the Creation of New Worlds 21 1. Rethinking Amerindian Resistance and Persistence in Colonial Portuguese America / John Monteiro 25 2. Rituals of Defiance: Past Resistance, Present Ambiguity / FelipeCastro Gutiérrez 44 3. Indian Resistances to the Rebellion of 1712 in Chiapas / Juan Pedro Viqueira 63 4. The ""Commander of All Forests"" against the ""Jacobins"" of Brazil: The Cabanada, 1832–1835 / Marcus J. M. de Carvalho 81 5. 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 100 Part Two: Resisting through Religion and for Religion 119 6. Millenarianism, Hegemony, and Resistance in Brazil / Patricia R. Pessar 123 7. Where Does Resistance Hide in Contemporary Candomblé? / Luis Nicolau Parés 144 8. Catholic Resistances in Revolutionary Mexico during the Religious Conflict / Jean Meyer 165 9. Gender, Resistance, and Mexico's Church-State Conflict / Patience A. Schell 184 Part Three: Rethinking Resistance in a Changing World 205 10. Tracing Resistance: Community and Ethnicity in a Peasant Organization / Margarita Zárate 221 11. Resistance, Factionalism, and Ethnogenesis in Southern Jalisco / Guillermo de la Peña 230 12. The Transhistorical, Juridical-Formal, and Post-Utopian Quilombo / Ilka Boaventura Leite 250 13. From Resistance Avenue to the Plaza of Decisions: New Urban Actors in Salvador, Bahia / Maria Gabriela Hita 269 14. Contestation in the Courts: The Amparo as a Form of Resistance to the Cancellation of Agrarian Reform in Mexico / Helga Baitenmann 289 15. Beyond Resistance: Raising Utopias from the Dead in Mexico City and Oaxaca / Matthew Gutmann 305 Conclusion. Rethinking Histories of Resistance in Brazil and Mexico / Alan Knight 325 Bibliography 355 About the Contributors 389 Index 391"

Reviews

This collection offers extraordinarily rich and historically and ethnographically penetrating analyses of the concept of resistance, developing more nuanced and powerful applications of the concept based on detailed case studies from Mexico and Brazil. The authors are recognized authorities and the each present original work of great interest and value. The essays are outstanding and the introduction by John Gledhill and the concluding discussion by Alan Knight are masterful summaries of the complex issues that emerge in the essays. --Donald Pollock, University of Buffalo

Author Information

John Gledhill is the Max Gluckman Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Power and Its Disguises: Anthropological Perspectives on Politics. Patience A. Schell is a Senior Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Church and State Education in Revolutionary Mexico City.

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