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Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches

Author : Carole A. Myscofski
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292748552

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Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches by Carole A. Myscofski Pdf

The Roman Catholic church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women’s lives in the colony were shaped and constrained by the Church’s ideals for pure women, as well as by parallel concepts in the Iberian honor code for women. Records left by Jesuit missionaries, Roman Catholic church officials, and Portuguese Inquisitors make clear that women’s daily lives and their opportunities for marriage, education, and religious practice were sharply circumscribed throughout the colonial period. Yet these same documents also provide evocative glimpses of the religious beliefs and practices that were especially cherished or independently developed by women for their own use, constituting a separate world for wives, mothers, concubines, nuns, and witches. Drawing on extensive original research in primary manuscript and printed sources from Brazilian libraries and archives, as well as secondary Brazilian historical works, Carole Myscofski proposes to write Brazilian women back into history, to understand how they lived their lives within the society created by the Portuguese imperial government and Luso-Catholic ecclesiastical institutions. Myscofski offers detailed explorations of the Catholic colonial views of the ideal woman, the patterns in women’s education, the religious views on marriage and sexuality, the history of women’s convents and retreat houses, and the development of magical practices among women in that era. One of the few wide-ranging histories of women in colonial Latin America, this book makes a crucial contribution to our knowledge of the early modern Atlantic World.

Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches

Author : Carole A. Myscofski
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292748538

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Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches by Carole A. Myscofski Pdf

The Roman Catholic church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women’s lives in the colony were shaped and constrained by the Church’s ideals for pure women, as well as by parallel concepts in the Iberian honor code for women. Records left by Jesuit missionaries, Roman Catholic church officials, and Portuguese Inquisitors make clear that women’s daily lives and their opportunities for marriage, education, and religious practice were sharply circumscribed throughout the colonial period. Yet these same documents also provide evocative glimpses of the religious beliefs and practices that were especially cherished or independently developed by women for their own use, constituting a separate world for wives, mothers, concubines, nuns, and witches. Drawing on extensive original research in primary manuscript and printed sources from Brazilian libraries and archives, as well as secondary Brazilian historical works, Carole Myscofski proposes to write Brazilian women back into history, to understand how they lived their lives within the society created by the Portuguese imperial government and Luso-Catholic ecclesiastical institutions. Myscofski offers detailed explorations of the Catholic colonial views of the ideal woman, the patterns in women’s education, the religious views on marriage and sexuality, the history of women’s convents and retreat houses, and the development of magical practices among women in that era. One of the few wide-ranging histories of women in colonial Latin America, this book makes a crucial contribution to our knowledge of the early modern Atlantic World.

Before Brasília

Author : Mary C. Karasch
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Brazil
ISBN : 9780826357625

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Before Brasília by Mary C. Karasch Pdf

PART THREE: Points of Contact and Culture Change -- 8: People of the Holy Spirit: Christians and Their Sacred Spaces -- 9: Shadows in the Night: Women and Gender Relations -- 10: Defenders of the Conquest and Useful Vassals: The Free People of Color -- CONCLUSION: Reflections on Frontiers/Borderlands of Central Brazil -- APPENDIX A: Indigenous Nations of Central Brazil -- APPENDIX B : Censuses -- APPENDIX C: Colonial Churches and Lay Brotherhoods in the Captaincy of Goiás -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover

Women's Negotiations and Textual Agency in Latin America, 1500-1799

Author : Mónica Díaz,Rocío Quispe-Agnoli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315401010

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Women's Negotiations and Textual Agency in Latin America, 1500-1799 by Mónica Díaz,Rocío Quispe-Agnoli Pdf

Fidelity discourse and the pacification of tyrants and Indians: Doña Mariana Osorio de Narváez

Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 31

Author : Ralph W. Hood,Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004443969

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Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 31 by Ralph W. Hood,Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor Pdf

This work showcases two approaches to the socio-scientific study of religion: the analysis of data collected about congregational life in the Australian National Church Life Surveys (from 1991 to present), and the application of feminist approaches within the sociology of religion.

Veracruz and the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century

Author : Joseph M. H. Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009189866

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Veracruz and the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century by Joseph M. H. Clark Pdf

In the seventeenth century, Veracruz was the busiest port in the wealthiest colony in the Americas. People and goods from five continents converged in the city, inserting it firmly into the early modern world's largest global networks. Nevertheless, Veracruz never attained the fame or status of other Atlantic ports. Veracruz and the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century is the first English-language, book-length study of early modern Veracruz. Weaving elements of environmental, social, and cultural history, it examines both Veracruz's internal dynamics and its external relationships. Chief among Veracruz's relationships were its close ties within the Caribbean. Emphasizing relationships of small-scale trade and migration between Veracruz and Caribbean cities like Havana, Santo Domingo, and Cartagena, Veracruz and the Caribbean shows how the city's residents – especially its large African and Afro-descended communities – were able to form communities and define identities separate from those available in the Mexican mainland.

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Education

Author : John L. Rury,Eileen H. Tamura
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Comparative education
ISBN : 9780199340033

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Education by John L. Rury,Eileen H. Tamura Pdf

This handbook offers a global view of the historical development of educational institutions, systems of schooling, ideas about education, and educational experiences. Its 36 chapters consider changing scholarship in the field, examine nationally-oriented works by comparing themes andapproaches, lend international perspective on a range of issues in education, and provide suggestions for further research and analysis.Like many other subfields of historical analysis, the history of education has been deeply affected by global processes of social and political change, especially since the 1960s. The handbook weighs the influence of various interpretive perspectives, including revisionist viewpoints, takingparticular note of changes in the past half century. Contributors consider how schooling and other educational experiences have been shaped by the larger social and political context, and how these influences have affected the experiences of students, their families and the educators who have workedwith them.The Handbook provides insight and perspective on a wide range of topics, including pre-modern education, colonialism and anti-colonial struggles, indigenous education, minority issues in education, comparative, international, and transnational education, childhood education, non-formal and informaleducation, and a range of other issues. Each contribution includes endnotes and a bibliography for readers interested in further study.

The Cambridge History of Latin American Law in Global Perspective

Author : Thomas Duve,Tamar Herzog
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009058841

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The Cambridge History of Latin American Law in Global Perspective by Thomas Duve,Tamar Herzog Pdf

Covering the precolonial period to the present, The Cambridge History of Latin American Law in Global Perspective provides a comprehensive overview of Latin American law, revealing the vast commonalities and differences within the continent as well as entanglements with countries around the world. Bringing together experts from across the Americas and Europe, this innovative treatment of Latin American law explains how law operated in different historical settings, introduces a wide variety of sources of legal knowledge, and focuses on law as a social practice. It sheds light on topics such as the history of indigenous peoples' laws, the significance of religion in law, Latin American independences, national constitutions and codifications, human rights, dictatorships, transitional justice and legal pluralism, and a broad panorama of key aspects of the history of statehood and law. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction

Author : Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 2220 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783110279818

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Handbook of Autobiography / Autofiction by Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf Pdf

Autobiographical writings have been a major cultural genre from antiquity to the present time. General questions of the literary as, e.g., the relation between literature and reality, truth and fiction, the dependency of author, narrator, and figure, or issues of individual and cultural styles etc., can be studied preeminently in the autobiographical genre. Yet, the tradition of life-writing has, in the course of literary history, developed manifold types and forms. Especially in the globalized age, where the media and other technological / cultural factors contribute to a rapid transformation of lifestyles, autobiographical writing has maintained, even enhanced, its popularity and importance. By conceiving autobiography in a wide sense that includes memoirs, diaries, self-portraits and autofiction as well as media transformations of the genre, this three-volume handbook offers a comprehensive survey of theoretical approaches, systematic aspects, and historical developments in an international and interdisciplinary perspective. While autobiography is usually considered to be a European tradition, special emphasis is placed on the modes of self-representation in non-Western cultures and on inter- and transcultural perspectives of the genre. The individual contributions are closely interconnected by a system of cross-references. The handbook addresses scholars of cultural and literary studies, students as well as non-academic readers.

From Conquest to Colony

Author : Kirsten Schultz
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300274783

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From Conquest to Colony by Kirsten Schultz Pdf

A new history of Brazil’s eighteenth century that foregrounds debates about wealth, difference, and governance Transformations in Portugal and Brazil followed the discovery of gold in Brazil’s hinterland and the hinterland’s subsequent settlement. Although earlier conquests and evangelizations had incorporated new lands and peoples into the monarchy, royal officials now argued that the extraction of gold and the imperatives of rivalry and commerce demanded new approaches to governance to ensure that Brazil’s wealth flowed to Portugal and into imperial networks of exchange. Using archival records of royal and local administrations, as well as contemporary print culture, Kirsten Schultz shows how the eighteenth-century Portuguese crown came to define and defend Brazil as a “colony” that would reinvigorate Portuguese power. Making Brazil a colony entailed reckoning with dynamic societies that encompassed Indigenous peoples, Africans, and Europeans; the free and the enslaved; the wealthy and the poor. It also involved regulating social relations defined by legal status, ancestry, labor, and wealth to ensure that Portuguese America complemented and supported, rather than reproduced, metropolitan ways of producing and consuming wealth.

The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity

Author : David Thomas Orique,Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens,Virginia Garrard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190058852

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The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity by David Thomas Orique,Susan Fitzpatrick-Behrens,Virginia Garrard Pdf

By 2025, Latin America's population of observant Christians will be the largest in the world. Nonetheless, studies examining the exponential growth of global Christianity tend to overlook this region, focusing instead on Africa and Asia. Research on Christianity in Latin America provides a core point of departure for understanding the growth and development of Christianity in the "Global South." In The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity an interdisciplinary contingent of scholars examines Latin American Christianity in all of its manifestations from the colonial to the contemporary period. The essays here provide an accessible background to understanding Christianity in Latin America. Spanning the era from indigenous and African-descendant people's conversion to and transformation of Catholicism during the colonial period through the advent of Liberation Theology in the 1960s and conversion to Pentecostalism and Charismatic Catholicism, The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Christianity is the most complete introduction to the history and trajectory of this important area of modern Christianity.

Women Warriors and National Heroes

Author : Boyd Cothran,Joan Judge,Adrian Shubert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350121157

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Women Warriors and National Heroes by Boyd Cothran,Joan Judge,Adrian Shubert Pdf

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. This volume presents women warriors and hero cults from a number of cultures since the early modern period. The first truly global study of women warriors, individual chapters examine figures such as Joan of Arc in Cairo, revenging daughters in Samurai Japan, a transgender Mexican revolutionary and WWII Chinese spies. Exploring issues of violence, gender fluidity, memory and nation-building, the authors discuss how these real or imagined female figures were constructed and deployed in different national and transnational contexts. Divided into four parts, they explore how women warriors and their stories were created, consider the issue of the violent woman, discuss how these female figures were gendered, and highlight the fate of women warriors who live on. The chapters illustrate the ways in which female fighters have figured in nation-building stories and in the ordering or re-ordering of gender politics, and give the history of women fighters a critical edge. Exploring women as military actors, women after war, and the strategic use of women's stories in national narratives, this intellectually innovative volume provides the first global treatment of women warriors and their histories.

The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration

Author : Andreas E. Feldmann,Xochitl Bada,Jorge Durand,Stephanie Schütze
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000688115

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The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration by Andreas E. Feldmann,Xochitl Bada,Jorge Durand,Stephanie Schütze Pdf

The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration offers a systematic account of population movements to and from the region over the last 150 years, spanning from the massive transoceanic migration of the 1870s to contemporary intraregional and transnational movements. The volume introduces the migratory trajectories of Latin American populations as a complex web of transnational movements linking origin, transit, and receiving countries. It showcases the historical mobility dynamics of different national groups including Arab, Asian, African, European, and indigenous migration and their divergent international trajectories within existing migration systems in the Western Hemisphere, including South America, the Caribbean, and Mesoamerica. The contributors explore some of the main causes for migration, including wars, economic dislocation, social immobility, environmental degradation, repression, and violence. Multiple case studies address critical contemporary topics such as the Venezuelan exodus, Central American migrant caravans, environmental migration, indigenous and gender migration, migrant religiosity, transit and return migration, urban labor markets, internal displacement, the nexus between organized crime and forced migration, the role of social media and new communication technologies, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on movement. These essays provide a comprehensive map of the historical evolution of migration in Latin America and contribute to define future challenges in migration studies in the region. This book will be of interest to scholars of Latin American and Migration Studies in the disciplines of history, sociology, political science, anthropology, and geography.

Opting Out

Author : Joanna Davidson,Dinah Hannaford
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781978830127

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Opting Out by Joanna Davidson,Dinah Hannaford Pdf

Women around the world are opting out of marriage. Through nuanced ethnographic accounts of the ways that women are moving the needle on marital norms and practices, Opting Out reveals the conditions that make this widespread phenomenon possible in places where marriage has long been obligatory. Each chapter invites readers into the lives of particular women and the changing circumstances in which these lives unfold - sometimes painfully, sometimes humorously, and always unexpectedly. Taken together, the essays in this volume prompt the following questions: Why is marriage so consistently disappointing for women? When the rewards of economic stability and the social status that marriage confers are troubled, does marriage offer women anything compelling at all? Across diverse geographic contexts in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, this book offers sensitive and powerful portrayals of women as they escape or reshape marriage into a more rewarding arrangement.

Women in Colonial Latin America, 1526 to 1806

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781624667527

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Women in Colonial Latin America, 1526 to 1806 by Anonim Pdf

"This outstanding collection makes available for the first time a remarkable range of primary sources that will enrich courses on women as well as Latin American history more broadly. Within these pages are captivating stories of enslaved African and indigenous women who protest abuse; of women who defend themselves from charges of witchcraft, cross-dressing, and infanticide; of women who travel throughout the empire or are left behind by the men in their lives; and of women’s strategies for making a living in a world of cross-cultural exchanges. Jaffary and Mangan's excellent Introduction and annotations provide context and guide readers to think critically about crucial issues related to the intersections of gender with conquest, religion, work, family, and the law." —Sarah Chambers, University of Minnesota