Everyday Life in 19th Century Latin America

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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?

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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
• Political uses of print media newspapers,
  broadsides, history books
• Church-State relationships affect culture

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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

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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

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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 cant form a national culture
  and a modern nation state?

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Lithographs

• An Argentine gaucho

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La Tapada, Peru
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Women with peinetones
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Elite political tertulia, Independence Period
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Painting, Brazilian man
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Mexican ex-voto
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A Nun taking Religious Orders
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A Mexican painter and her family
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A Bahian Woman
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French Children in Mexico
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A man from coastal Mexico
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Liberators, Caudillos and their Relatives
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The Bay of Havana
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Giving Alms at Church
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Photography White Brazilian farmers, 1890s
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Peruvian Servants and their Charge
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Peruvian Indigenous
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19th Century Rio de Janeiro
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US sailors peeking in a bordello
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A Grieving Mexican Family
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A Mexican woman and her dead baby