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Cleansing Honor with Blood: Masculinity, Violence, and Power in the Backlands of Northeast Brazil, 1845a 1889

Cleansing Honor with Blood: Masculinity, Violence, and Power in the Backlands of Northeast Brazil, 1845a 1889

Santos, Martha

Hardcover

CriminologyGeneral World HistorySouth American History

ISBN10: 0804774560
ISBN13: 9780804774567
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Jan 11 2012
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

This book offers a critical reinterpretation of male violence, patriarchy, and machismo in rural Latin America. It focuses on the lives of lower-class men and women, known as sertanejo/as, in the hinterlands of the northeastern Brazilian province of Ceará between 1845 and 1889. Challenging the widely accepted depiction of sertanejos as conditioned to violence by nature, culture, and climate, Santos argues that their concern with maintaining an honorable manly reputation and the use of violence were historically contingent strategies employed to resolve conflicts over scant resources and to establish power over women and other men. She also traces a shift in the functioning of patriarchy that coincided with changes in the material fortunes of sertanejo families. As economic dislocation, environmental calamity, and family separation led to greater female autonomy and an erosion of patriarchal authority in the home, public--and often violent--enforcement of male power maintained patriarchal order in these communities.

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