Goods, Power, History Latin America's Material Culture [Hardcover]

Explores the history of material culture and consumption in Latin America over the past 500 years.This book is an original exploration into the history of material culture and consumption in Latin America over the past 500 years with special attention to the categories of food, clothing, shelter, and the arrangement of public and private space. The practice of consumption is related to supply and demand but also to the importance of ritual and the scramble for identity within the ethnic and class arrangements imposed by colonial and post-colonial societies.This book is an original exploration into the history of material culture and consumption in Latin America over the past 500 years with special attention to the categories of food, clothing, shelter, and the arrangement of public and private space. The practice of consumption is related to supply and demand but also to the importance of ritual and the scramble for identity within the ethnic and class arrangements imposed by colonial and post-colonial societies.This book is an original exploration into the history of material culture and consumption in Latin America over the past 500 years with special attention to the categories of food, clothing, shelter, and the arrangement of public and private space. The practice of consumption is related to supply and demand but also to the importance of ritual and the scramble for identity within the ethnic and class arrangements imposed by colonial and postcolonial societies.1. Introduction; 2. Material landscape; 3. Contact goods; 4. Civilizing goods; 5. Modernizing goods; 6. Developing goods; 7. Global goods. ...[a] tantalizing romp through Latin American material culture. This is a superior, sophisticated understanding of Latin America present and past. Bulletin of the Society of Spanish and Portuguese History ...sweeping yet thoroughly accessible... Latin American Research Review Highly recommended for graduate students and professional in the fields. CHOICE JlD