Showing papers in "Bulletin of Latin American Research in 1998"

TL;DR: The racial identities of Indians and mestizos in a highland Peruvian region are closely associated with their relative positions to the earth as mentioned in this paper, and this distinction is maintained and reinforced through the use of material objects in everyday life.

TL;DR: In Peru, emancipation of slaves was relatively easy as mentioned in this paper and racism as it is understood in South Africa or in parts of the Southern United States has not existed in Peru, however these prejudices have not been sanctioned by the law and they have, more than a profound racial feeling, an economic, social and cultural character.

TL;DR: The authors examined alternative conceptions of social difference in Otavalo, Ecuador and showed how the indigenous movement in Ecuador receives less support from native peasants who see the world in polarised "racial" terms.

TL;DR: The Economic History of Latin America since Independence as mentioned in this paper provides a comprehensive, balanced portrait of the factors affecting economic development in Latin America, taking its narrative from the end of the colonial epoch to the present.

TL;DR: The role of NGOs in social service delivery in Latin America and questions some of the assumptions which are often made about their abilities is discussed in this article, where the authors discuss the political implications of this new role for NGOs and conclude that expectations regarding NGO potential for grassroots empowerment have been over-optimistic.

TL;DR: In this article, a special issue on race in the Andes is presented, with an overview of the interrelated intellectual histories of racism, from colonial proto-racism to the totalising theories of the 19th century, to the heterogeneous "neo-racisms" found in the andes today, in which both these earlier ideas and contemporary cultural racisms are at home.

TL;DR: The authors examines the main trends occurring in the counter-insurgency campaign waged since 1980 by the Peruvian state against the Partido Comunista del Peru-Sendero Luminoso.

TL;DR: A typology comprising technocratic rationality versus political partisanship helps to identify several local government structures found in contemporary Mexico: political machines; autonomous-indigenous; technocratic; and modernising party governments as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the evolution of the Argentine external sector between 1811 and 1870 and presented new series of exports and terms of trade, showing the vulnerability of the economy to external and internal shocks, but also the continuous growth of total exports and per capita exports.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze how the performance of folkloric music and dance defines and redefines ethnic/racial distinctions and identities in the Andes, focusing on the promotional activities of urban-based institutions in Cusco called institucions culturales.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined conflicts over land and resources in Nicaragua's Bosawas rainforest reserve between Mestizos and Mayangna Indian people, and highlighted the institutional complexities and weaknesses which have allowed Sikilta's land problem to go unresolved.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the external sources of democratisation in Paraguay, specifically how the US contributed to regime change in that country, and provide an analysis of the different forms of leverage exercised by the US before and during Paraguay's transition.

TL;DR: The authors analyzed the views held by indigenous people of one of the main symbols of national identity in Mexico: the mestizo, and explored these responses in the context of different theoretical approaches of modernisation and ethnicity as components in the contruction of nationhood.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze processes of belonging, identity formation and construction of knowledge within and between "new" and "traditional" Catholic groups in a low-income neighbourhood of Guadalajara.

TL;DR: The authors examines the interconnectedness of whiteness and heterosexual masculinity in the autobiography of Mario Vargas Llosa, El pez en el agua [A Fish in the Water], where the self is implicitly asserted in opposition to an image of nature as the realm of the indigenous and the feminine.

TL;DR: The authors examines changing institutional and grass roots strategies in response to hunger and malnutrition in Nicaragua during the period of revolutionary government and the years subsequent to the Sandinistas' 1990 electoral loss.

TL;DR: In this paper, the second part of a series following a study carried out in the Brazilian Amazon region of peasant livelihoods, their current character and problems of sustainability, is presented and the more recent debate on the creation of conservation units (SNUC) in Brazil is discussed.

TL;DR: Barrios Cabrera as mentioned in this paper analyzed the ways in which he introduced social and economic development, and clarified the apparent contradiction in his hostile response to agrarismo yet benevolence towards the region's campesinos.

TL;DR: This paper explored the relationship between social change and literature in present-day Peru and argued that the emergence of new fiction-writers and poets from large social sectors historically marginalised from Peruvian public life is part of a dramatic process of social change by which these sectors are gaining an important role in the transformation of their society.