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Item Identities on the Periphery: Mestizaje in the Lowlands of South America(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2014-12-31) Bauer, DanielIdentity in Latin America is addressed most commonly with a specific focus on the organizing framework and ideology of mestizaje. This paper examines two distinct Latin American identities that exist on the margins of the dominant framework for understanding identity in Latin America. Scholarly work dealing with mestizaje emphasizes Indian-White polarities while also highlighting the ambiguities inherent in the mestizo identity. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in coastal Ecuador and Amazonian Peru, this article explores the similarities between montubio and ribereño identities. This article emphasizes the place-based nature of these unique identities while at the same time examining economic practice as fundamental to both montubio and ribereño cultural identities. Additionally, this article examines the shifting meanings associated with each identity while suggesting that montubio and ribereño identities can be viewed as undergoing parallel processes with regard to the nation-state and the dominant ideology of mestizaje.Item La realidad como fundamento de la imaginación en La cándida Eréndira(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2014-12-01) Cajiao Cuéllar, ElsaEste ensayo es un extracto de la tesis de maestría presentada en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (España) el 22 de Diciembre de 2000 bajo el título “La síntesis poética de la realidad en La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada”. En él analizo el relato a la luz de su contexto histórico, cultural y geográfico para dilucidar la síntesis poética que García Márquez dice hacer de la realidad.Item La figura de Bolívar en el discurso historiográfico(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2014-12-31) Cajiao Cuéllar, ElsaItem Neighbors and Neighborhoods. The Effects of Proximity and Educational and Economic Status on Personal Networks in Argentina(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2014-12-31) De Grande, PabloIn this paper, we present results of a national (7 cities) personal network study carried out in Argentina during 2006. The relation between sociability and neighborhood is examined, stressing the idea that neighborhood unfolds as a complex, multidimensional phenomenon that spreads from past experience to present relations, creating new connections but also consolidating existing ones. Additionally, the interplay among economic status, educational status, personal ties and neighborhood sociability is explored, summarizing descriptive analysis of the information gathered after a name generator based survey.Item Redefining Cuban Film and the Imagined Community: A Close-up on Nuevo realizador Aram Vidal(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2014-12-31) Farrell, Michelle LeighWith the introduction of inexpensive and digital filmmaking alternatives a young generation of Cuban filmmakers is creating a distance from the centralized state ICAIC using non-theatrical distribution, and digital technology to change the audiovisual landscape. I explore how young filmmaker Aram Vidal has added another dimension to this generation creating critical films on Cuban identity and its diaspora from within Cuba and abroad. I argue that through films like Vidal’s this generation is re-defining what Anderson calls Cuba’s imaginary community to include a more fluid definition of Cuban identity, while also challenging the definition of film and the audiovisual field.Item Vestigios de la Sprachkrise austríaca en Rayuela de Cortázar(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2014-12-31) Makedonas, EleftheriosThe article detects in Cortázar’s Rayuela a highly critical stance towards language and its capability of efficiently representing the world, as has been believed within the official occidental culture from the Enlightenment on. The novel is situated within a long “apophatic” tradition, although the analysis is limited to its most recent, secular manifestations. Various elements are borrowed from many dissimilar thinkers and authors like the empiricists Bacon and Locke, the precursors of Postmodernism Blanchot and Bataille, the Irish authors Joyce and Beckett, and the poet-eyewitness of Auschwitz Paul Celan. But primarily, the focus is on the respective radical ideas of Nietzsche and the thinkers of the so-called Austrian Crisis of language. Resumen: El ensayo detecta en Rayuela de Cortázar una postura altamente crítica acerca del lenguaje y su capacidad de representar eficazmente el mundo, tal como se creyó dentro de la cultura Occidental oficial, especialmente a partir de la Ilustración. Se la sitúa a la novela dentro de una larga tradición “apofática” aunque el análisis se limita a las manifestaciones más recientes, de carácter laico, de la misma. Se prestan elementos de pensadores y poetas tan dispares como los empiristas Bacon y Locke, los precursores del Posmodernismo Blanchot y Bataille, los autores irlandeses Joyce y Beckett, y el poeta-testigo presencial de Auschwitz, Paul Celan. Pero sobre todo se enfoca en las respectivas ideas radicales de Nietzsche y los pensadores de la llamada Sprachkrise austríaca.Item Seguridad cultural para las madres indígenas mesoamericanas. Una exploración de las Epistemologías del sur con el Códice florentino como guía(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2014-12-31) Reid, Alison; Rojas-Lizana, IsoldaThis paper explores birthing practices employed in Mesoamerican indigenous communities through the examination of the Florentine Codex of Fray Bernardino Sahagún, to glimpse at how the birthing roles of the original peoples of Mesoamerica were prescribed. The Florentine Codex is a 12 volume work of ethnographic research undertaken in the 16th Century to describe the lives of the Nahua (also known as Aztec and Mexica) people in Mesoamerica in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish conquest of the New World. We show that pre-Conquest women had roles which were respected throughout their communities. Indigenous Mesoamerican women today still adhere to those roles and the importance of their community, particularly during the highly significant function of pregnancy and childbirth. Their dedication to traditional customs, roles and maternity care preferences and behaviours puts them in conflict with the imposed system of centralised maternity care which has been introduced to the detriment of their well-being. Under the umbrella proposal ‘Epistemologies of the South’(Santos 2007), which critiques dominant epistemologies that decontextualise knowledge from its cultural and political contexts, we propose the concept of Cultural Safety which exists where indigenous people feel respected and empowered, and may be promoted and understood by the examination of historical investigations into indigenous life and beliefs.Item Sons of the Fatherland: Brazilian Masculinities in Tropa de Elite and Praia do Futuro(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2014-12-31) Santos Vieira de Jesus, Diego; Daminelli Fernandes, VerônicaThe main objective of this article is to examine the different perspectives on Brazilian masculinities brought by Tropa de Elite / Tropa de Elite 2 and Praia do Futuro by the investigation of the main characters in both movies, both played by Wagner Moura: Roberto Nascimento and Donato. We argue that the masculinites in both movies are reflections of phenomena which are produced at the institutional life of Brazilian state.Item El encuentro de dos culturas musicales. Colaboración selectiva musical y social entre los aztecas y los pueblos de misión de Nueva España, 1530-1630(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2014-12-31) Thomas, KaitlinThis essay discusses carefully selected 16th and 17th century New Spain musical habits, composers, and samples to examine how the practice of music composition coupled with the existence of pre and post-conquest musical traditions were used as a tool of manipulation on behalf of European missionaries yet also as a tool of identity retention and selective collaboration by their indigenous Aztec counterparts.Item Con mi corazón en Yambo. A film by María Fernanda Restrepo(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2014-12-31) Guerrón Montero, CarlaItem Sobre "Abel Posse: senderos de un caminante solitario" por Roberto H. Esposto(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2014-12-31) Saad Maura, Ásima F. X.Item La muerte de Jaime Roldós. El largo silencio de un país. A film by Lisandra I. Rivera and Manolo Sarmiento(Latin American Studies Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2014-12-31) Villafuerte Almeida, Iván