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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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political activism

• Full title: New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 416
• EAN: 9780822351733
• ISBN: 0822351730
• ID: 04939493
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Weight: 730 g
• Date of publishing: 16. March 2012

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