Where Cultures Meet: Frontiers in Latin American History, Vol. 6
In Where Cultures Meet, editors Weber and Rausch have collected twenty essays that explore how the frontier experience has helped create Latin American national identities and institutions. Using 'frontier' to mean more than 'border,' Weber and Rausch regard frontiers as the geographic zones of interaction between distinct cultures. Each essay in the volume illuminates the recipro-cal influences of the 'pioneer' culture and the 'frontier' culture, as they contend with each other and their...
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In Where Cultures Meet, editors Weber and Rausch have collected twenty essays that explore how the frontier experience has helped create Latin American national identities and institutions. Using 'frontier' to mean more than 'border,' Weber and Rausch regard frontiers as the geographic zones of interaction between distinct cultures. Each essay in the volume illuminates the recipro-cal influences of the 'pioneer' culture and the 'frontier' culture, as they contend with each other and their physical environment. The transformative power of frontiers gives them special interest for historians and anthropologists. Delving into the frontier experience below the Rio Grande, Where Cultures Meet is an important collection for anyone seeking to understand fully Latin American history and culture.
Introduction1The Significance of the Frontier in American History12Latin-American Frontiers193Frontier Barbarism264The Frontier in Hispanic America335The Frontiers of Hispanic America426The Great Frontier517The Great Frontier: Freedom and Hierarchy648New World Frontiers: Comparisons and Agendas729Reflections on the Ibero-American Frontier Mission as an Institution in Native American History8710The Encomienda in Paraguay9911Frontier Warfare in Colonial Chile11512"Black Transfrontiersmen": The Caribbean Maroons12313Family, Frontiers, and a Brazilian Community13014National Identity and the Frontier14115The Gaucho in Argentina's Quest for National Identity15116Bandeirantes and Pioneers16517"Two-Step" Migration and Upward Mobility on the Frontier: The Safely Valve Effect in Pejibaye, Costa Rica17318Violence on the Frontier18819Frontier Expansion and Indian Peoples in the Brazilian Amazon19620Social Change on the Latin American Frontier212Suggested Readings225Suggested Films231
