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Informationen zum Autor John Gledhill and Patience A. Schell, eds. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
