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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 …
Opus Dei, Paul J. Rich
Opus Dei, Paul J. Rich
Paul J. Rich
Opus Dei plays an important role in Mexico and Latin America, and invites comparisons with Freemasonry. Although they appear to be arch rivals, the two movements have certain similarities.