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Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America

Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America

  • Author: Caulfield, Sueann; Chambers, Sarah C.; Putnam, Lara
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 9780822335757
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822386476
  • Place of publication:  Durham , United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2005
  • Month: June
  • Pages: 344
  • DDC: 340/.115/098
  • Language: English
This collection brings together recent scholarship that examines how understandings of honor changed in Latin America between political independence in the early nineteenth century and the rise of nationalist challenges to liberalism in the 1930s. These rich historical case studies reveal the uneven processes through which ideas of honor and status came to depend more on achievements such as education and employment and less on the birthright privileges that were the mainstays of honor during the colonial period. Whether considering court battles over lost virginity or police conflicts with prostitutes, vagrants, and the poor over public decorum, the contributors illuminate shifting ideas about public and private spheres, changing conceptions of race, the growing intervention of the state in defining and arbitrating individual reputations, and the enduring role of patriarchy in apportioning both honor and legal rights.

Each essay examines honor in the context of specific historical processes, including early republican nation-building in Peru; the transformation in Mexican villages of the cargo system, by which men rose in rank through service to the community; the abolition of slavery in Rio de Janeiro; the growth of local commerce and shifts in women’s status in highland Bolivia; the formation of a multiethnic society on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast; and the development of nationalist cultural responses to U.S. colonialism in Puerto Rico. By connecting liberal projects that aimed to modernize law and society with popular understandings of honor and status, this volume sheds new light on broad changes and continuities in Latin America over the course of the long nineteenth century.

Contributors. José Amador de Jesus, Rossana Barragán, Sueann Caulfield, Sidney Chalhoub, Sarah C. Chambers, Eileen J. Findley, Brodwyn Fischer, Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha, Laura Gotkowitz, Keila Grinberg, Peter Guardino, Cristiana Schettini Pereira, Lara Elizabeth Putnam

  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Transformations in Honor, Status, and Law over the Long Nineteenth Century by Laura Putnam, Sarah C. Chambers, and Sueann Caulfield
  • 1. Liberalism, Status, and Citizenship
    • Private Crimes, Public Order: Honor, Gender, and the Law in Early Republican Peru by Sarah C. Chambers
    • Community Service, Liberal Law, and Local Custom in Indigenous Villages: Oaxaca, 1750-1850 by Peter Guardino
    • The "Spirit" of Bolivian laws: Citizenship, Patriarchy, and infamy by Rossana Barragan
    • Interpreting Machado de Assis: Paternalism, Slavery, and the Free Womb Law by Sidney Chalhoub
    • Slavery, Liberalism, and Civil Law: Definitions of Status and Citizenship in the Elaboration of the Brazilian Civil Code (1855-1916) by Keila Grinberg
  • II. Popular Users of the Law
    • Trading Insults: Honor, Violence, and the Gendered Culture of Commerce in Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1870s-1950s by Laura Gotkowitz
    • Sex and Standing in the Streets of Port Limon, Costa Rica, 1890-1910 by Laura Putnam
    • Slandering Citizens: Insults, Class, and Social Legitimacy in Rio de Janeiro's criminal courts by Brodwyn Fischer
    • Courtroom Tales of Sex and Honor: Rapto and rape in late nineteenth-century Puerto Rico by Eileen J. Findlay
    • The Changing Politics of Freedom and Virginity in Rio de Janeiro, 1920-1940 by Sueann Caulfield
  • III. The Policing of Public Space
    • The Plena's Dissonant Melodies: Leisure, Racial Policing, and Nation in Puerto Rico, 1900-1930s by Jose Amador de Jesus
    • Prostitutes and the Law: The Uses of Court Cases Over Pandering in Rio de Janeiro at the beginning of the Twentieth Century by Christiana Schettini Pereira
    • The Stigmas of Dishonor: Criminal Records, Civil Rights, and Forensic Identification in Rio de Janeiro, 1903-1940 by Olivia Maria Gomes da Cunha
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