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
Summary
"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 Rubén Dario and Augusto Sandino; and effective introductory and concluding remarks"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-540) and index
Notes
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