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Martha S. Santos - Cleansing Honor with Blood - 9780804774567 - V9780804774567
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Cleansing Honor with Blood

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Description for Cleansing Honor with Blood Hardback. Cleansing Honor with Blood examines the daily experiences of interpersonal violence, the elaboration of masculine identities around honor and the practice of violence, and the contests for power and authority among free poor men from the hinterlands of the northeastern Brazilian province of Ceara between 1845 and 1889. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 456.

This book offers a critical reinterpretation of male violence, patriarchy, and machismo in rural Latin America. It focuses on the lives of lower-class men and women, known as sertanejo/as, in the hinterlands of the northeastern Brazilian province of Ceará between 1845 and 1889. Challenging the widely accepted depiction of sertanejos as conditioned to violence by nature, culture, and climate, Santos argues that their concern with maintaining an honorable manly reputation and the use of violence were historically contingent strategies employed to resolve conflicts over scant resources and to establish power over women and other men. She also traces a shift ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804774567
SKU
V9780804774567
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About Martha S. Santos
Martha S. Santos is Assistant Professor of Latin American History at the University of Akron.

Reviews for Cleansing Honor with Blood
"Her book, based on a wealth of sources from property records to popular poetry, breaks new ground insofar as even the historiography of that region has tended to accept the idea of an immutable hypermasculinity. . . Santos presents us with a fascinating and innovative study that historicizes the construction of 'machismo' and attempts to distinguish various forms of patriarchy ... Read more

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