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Subaltern Sombrero Studies: Underclasses Get Notice, Paul J. Rich
Subaltern Sombrero Studies: Underclasses Get Notice, Paul J. Rich
Paul J. Rich
Latin American subaltern studies are in vogue, the meaning of "subaltern" having been enlarged since its origins in Asian studies and description as "history-from-below.'"Whether social history was a sufficiently descriptive term and subaltern studies simply a more flashy way to describe such investigations could be argued. In any event, in regards to the study of Latin American "minorities" (is any group, given the continent's enormous variety, really a majority?), the subject still encounters a number of self-imposed, if diminishing, constraints that academia, in the past, has masochistically assumed: gender blinders, practical illiteracy where the indigenous peoples and religious groups (and …
Patriarchy In Old Mexico, Paul J. Rich
Patriarchy In Old Mexico, Paul J. Rich
Paul J. Rich
Fraternal studies are adjacent to gender studies -- fraternal societies have often been exclusively male or female, and research into such societies inevitably raises questions of gender. This review of Stern's landmark book sustains that position.