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Rascally signs in sacred places : the politics of culture in Nicaragua / David E. Whisnant.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman seriesPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, �1995.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 569 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0807866261
  • 9780807866269
  • 9781469600161
  • 1469600161
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rascally signs in sacred places.DDC classification:
  • 306.2/097285 20
LOC classification:
  • F1523.8 .W45 1995eb
Other classification:
  • 15.85
  • 15.85.
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover Page; Rascally Signs in Sacred Places; Copyright Page; Epigraph; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One The Past as Prologue; Chapter 1 Beautiful and Pleasant Land; Chapter 2 Rascally Signs in Sacred Places; Part Two Building a Cultural Apparatus; Chapter 3 He had an Odd Accent in Spanish; Chapter 4 Anything but Flowers; Chapter 5 Culture as Revolution, Revolution as Culture; Chapter 6 Political Theories and Cultural Realities; Part Three Four Case Studies; Chapter 7 Looting the Past; Chapter 8 A Prodigious Child of Nicaragua; Chapter 9 Ancestral Feats and Future Dreams.
Chapter 10 New Women and (Not So) New MenConclusion; Notes; Sources Cited; Index.
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Review: "Anthropology meets cultural studies (popular and otherwise) and historiography with a remarkable theoretical and investigative depth. A wide range of topics includes the title essay on 19th-century culture; culture under Somoza (the elder) and resistance to that culture; Sandinista culture and resistance thereto; 19th-century looting of antiquities; gender; the political cultures surrounding Rub�en Dario and Augusto Sandino; and effective introductory and concluding remarks"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas
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"Anthropology meets cultural studies (popular and otherwise) and historiography with a remarkable theoretical and investigative depth. A wide range of topics includes the title essay on 19th-century culture; culture under Somoza (the elder) and resistance to that culture; Sandinista culture and resistance thereto; 19th-century looting of antiquities; gender; the political cultures surrounding Rub�en Dario and Augusto Sandino; and effective introductory and concluding remarks"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

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Cover Page; Rascally Signs in Sacred Places; Copyright Page; Epigraph; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One The Past as Prologue; Chapter 1 Beautiful and Pleasant Land; Chapter 2 Rascally Signs in Sacred Places; Part Two Building a Cultural Apparatus; Chapter 3 He had an Odd Accent in Spanish; Chapter 4 Anything but Flowers; Chapter 5 Culture as Revolution, Revolution as Culture; Chapter 6 Political Theories and Cultural Realities; Part Three Four Case Studies; Chapter 7 Looting the Past; Chapter 8 A Prodigious Child of Nicaragua; Chapter 9 Ancestral Feats and Future Dreams.

Chapter 10 New Women and (Not So) New MenConclusion; Notes; Sources Cited; Index.

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