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Title

Recasting culture and space in Iberian contexts / edited by Sharon R. Roseman and Shawn S. Parkhurst.

Publication

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Additional Authors

• Roseman, Sharon R., 1963-
• Parkhurst, Shawn S., 1958-

Description

xi, 313 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Focusing on the interplay of space, culture, and power in Iberia since 1850, this collection of case studies demonstrates how questions about social identities and power are also questions about mapping, texts, and concrete spaces. The late nineteenth and twentieth centuries are marked by a drive toward grandiose ideological conceptualizations that affected the production of ideas about modern geographical space. The contributors examine the links between this historical context and the emergence of specific intellectual traditions, as well as everyday discourses and practices. They also explore the making of conflicted spaces in Portugal and Spain, and in foreign sites impacted by Iberian-origin exile or colonial settlement. The essays compel readers to consider exactly how people's political identifications have been forged through cultural struggles over the uses and meanings of physical spaces, whether these are in Barcelona, Bilbao, villages in the Alto Douro of Portugal or in Galician Spain, Malacca, the countryside near Avila (the "City of the Saints"), or Catalans' wartime London."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

SUNY series in national identities

Uniform Title

SUNY series in national identities.

Subject

• National characteristics, Spanish
• National characteristics, Portuguese
• Spain > Civilization
• Portugal > Civilization

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Culture and Space in Iberian Anthropology / Sharon R. Roseman and Shawn S. Parkhurst -- Pt. 1. Colonial Spaces and National Identities -- Ch. 2. The Hidden Empire: Peasants, Nation Building, and the Empire in Portuguese Anthropology / Joao Leal -- Ch. 3. Displaced Identities among the Malacca Portuguese / Brian Juan O'Neill -- Ch. 4. Imperialist Ideology and Representations of the Portuguese Provinces during the Early Estado Novo / Antonio Medeiros -- Pt. 2. Fascism, Cultural Spaces, and Memory Politics -- Ch. 5. Re-presenting the Fascist Classroom: Education as a Space of Memory in Contemporary Spain / Susan M. DiGiacomo -- Afterword: Displacements: The Experience of Vectored Spaces in Peninsular Places / James W. Fernandez.

ISBN

• 9780791473115 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0791473112 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007011277

OCLC

• 86117659
• ocm86117659
• SCSB-5390039

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries