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Everyday Life in 19 th Century Latin America

Everyday Life in 19 th Century Latin America. How do we reconstruct everyday life? Whose lives are most often depicted? Why do we need to talk about race and class? How do we discuss this?. How did Independence affect cultural activities?. New pantheon of heroes and holidays

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Everyday Life in 19 th Century Latin America

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  1. Everyday Life in 19th Century Latin America • How do we reconstruct everyday life? • Whose lives are most often depicted? • Why do we need to talk about race and class? • How do we discuss this?

  2. How did Independence affect cultural activities? • New pantheon of heroes and holidays • 1. Political: creation of new anthems, parades, street names, calendars • Artistic: Statues and monuments, popular music • Politicaluses of print media: newspapers, broadsides, history books • Church-State relationships affect culture

  3. Celebration of new European linkages (non-Spanish) • Adoption of French culture and styles in elite dress, artistic efforts, concerts • Reliance on European or US specialists to build infrastructure • Emphasis on importation of factory-made products over artisan efforts

  4. Celebration of mestizo, Afro-Latin American and indigenous traditions • Traditional forms of self defense (capoeira in Brazil) • Evolution of the tango in Argentina • Maintenance of Indian communal practices

  5. Rise of national culture • Need to find ways to assimilate indigenous, mixed race and white populations • Novels as a way to create “national romances” • Universal military conscription for men • Acknowledge the artistic value of past Indian civilizations as well as remaining artisan styles “indigenismo” • What happens if you can’t form a national culture and a modern nation state?

  6. Lithographs An Argentine gaucho

  7. La Tapada, Peru

  8. Women with peinetones

  9. Elite political tertulia, Independence Period

  10. Painting, Brazilian man

  11. Mexican ex-voto

  12. A Nun taking Religious Orders

  13. A Mexican painter and her family

  14. A Bahian Woman

  15. French Children in Mexico

  16. A man from coastal Mexico

  17. Liberators, Caudillos and their Relatives

  18. The Bay of Havana

  19. Giving Alms at Church

  20. Photography: White Brazilian farmers, 1890s

  21. Peruvian Servants and their Charge

  22. Peruvian Indigenous

  23. 19th Century Rio de Janeiro

  24. US sailors peeking in a bordello

  25. A Grieving Mexican Family

  26. A Mexican woman and her dead baby

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