Author: Howard BenoistPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The Community Heritage in the Spanish Americas
Author: Howard BenoistPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
The Community Heritage in the Spanish Americas
Author: Howard BenoistCulture and Conquest
Author: George McClelland FosterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acculturation
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A Cultural History of Spanish America, from Conquest to Independence
Author: Mariano Picón-SalasPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520010123
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Defining Nations
Author: Tamar HerzogPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300129831
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
In this book Tamar Herzog explores the emergence of a specifically Spanish concept of community in both Spain and Spanish America in the eighteenth century. Challenging the assumption that communities were the natural result of common factors such as language or religion, or that they were artificially imagined, Herzog reexamines early modern categories of belonging. She argues that the distinction between those who were Spaniards and those who were foreigners came about as local communities distinguished between immigrants who were judged to be willing to take on the rights and duties of membership in that community and those who were not.
Diversity and Social Identity in Colonial Spanish America
Author: A Camera Report on El Cerrito
Author: Irving RusinowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Cacicas
Author: Margarita R. OchoaPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806169990
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
The term cacica was a Spanish linguistic invention, the female counterpart to caciques, the Arawak word for male indigenous leaders in Spanish America. But the term’s meaning was adapted and manipulated by natives, creating a new social stratum where it previously may not have existed. This book explores that transformation, a conscious construction and reshaping of identity from within. Cacicas feature far and wide in the history of Spanish America, as female governors and tribute collectors and as relatives of ruling caciques—or their destitute widows. They played a crucial role in the establishment and success of Spanish rule, but were also instrumental in colonial natives’ resistance and self-definition. In this volume, noted scholars uncover the history of colonial cacicas, moving beyond anecdotes of individuals in Spanish America. Their work focuses on the evolution of indigenous leadership, particularly the lineage and succession of these positions in different regions, through the lens of native women’s political activism. Such activism might mean the intervention of cacicas in the economic, familial, and religious realms or their participation in official and unofficial matters of governance. The authors explore the role of such personal authority and political influence across a broad geographic, chronological, and thematic range—in patterns of succession, the settling of frontier regions, interethnic relations and the importance of purity of blood, gender and family dynamics, legal and marital strategies for defending communities, and the continuation of indigenous governance. This volume showcases colonial cacicas as historical subjects who constructed their consciousness around their place, whether symbolic or geographic, and articulated their own unique identities. It expands our understanding of the significant influence these women exerted—within but also well beyond the native communities of Spanish America.
The Spanish Missionary Heritage of the United States
Author: United States. National Park ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Handbook of Heritage, Community, and Native American Languages in the United States
Author: Terrence G. WileyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136332499
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Co-published by the Center for Applied Linguistics Timely and comprehensive, this state-of-the-art overview of major issues related to heritage, community, and Native American languages in the United States, based on the work of noted authorities, draws from a variety of perspectives—the speakers; use of the languages in the home, community, and wider society; patterns of acquisition, retention, loss, and revitalization of the languages; and specific education efforts devoted to developing stronger connections with and proficiency in them. Contributions on language use, programs and instruction, and policy focus on issues that are applicable to many heritage language contexts. Offering a foundational perspective for serious students of heritage, community, and Native American languages as they are learned in the classroom, transmitted across generations in families, and used in communities, the volume provides background on the history and current status of many languages in the linguistic mosaic of U.S. society and stresses the importance of drawing on these languages as societal, community, and individual resources, while also noting their strategic importance within the context of globalization.