Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction. A Case for Rethinking Resistance / John Gledhill  1

Part One: Resistance and the Creation of New Worlds  21

1. Rethinking Amerindian Resistance and Persistence in Colonial Portuguese America / John Monteiro  25

2. Rituals of Defiance: Past Resistance, Present Ambiguity / FelipeCastro Gutiérrez  44

3. Indian Resistances to the Rebellion of 1712 in Chiapas / Juan Pedro Viqueira  63

4. The "Commander of All Forests" against the "Jacobins" of Brazil: The Cabanada, 1832–1835 / Marcus J. M. de Carvalho  81

5. A "Great Arch" Descending: Manumission Rates, Subaltern Social Mobility, and the Identities of Enslaved, Freeborn, and Freed Blacks in Southeastern Brazil, 1791–1888 / Robert W. Slenes  100

Part Two: Resisting through Religion and for Religion  119

6. Millenarianism, Hegemony, and Resistance in Brazil / Patricia R. Pessar  123

7. Where Does Resistance Hide in Contemporary Candomblé? / Luis Nicolau Parés  144

8. Catholic Resistances in Revolutionary Mexico during the Religious Conflict / Jean Meyer  165

9. Gender, Resistance, and Mexico's Church-State Conflict / Patience A. Schell  184

Part Three: Rethinking Resistance in a Changing World  205

10. Tracing Resistance: Community and Ethnicity in a Peasant Organization / Margarita Zárate  221

11. Resistance, Factionalism, and Ethnogenesis in Southern Jalisco / Guillermo de la Peña  230

12. The Transhistorical, Juridical-Formal, and Post-Utopian Quilombo / Ilka Boaventura Leite  250

13. From Resistance Avenue to the Plaza of Decisions: New Urban Actors in Salvador, Bahia / Maria Gabriela Hita  269

14. Contestation in the Courts: The Amparo as a Form of Resistance to the Cancellation of Agrarian Reform in Mexico / Helga Baitenmann  289

15. Beyond Resistance: Raising Utopias from the Dead in Mexico City and Oaxaca / Matthew Gutmann  305

Conclusion. Rethinking Histories of Resistance in Brazil and Mexico / Alan Knight  325

Bibliography  355

About the Contributors  389

Index  391

John Gledhill

John Monteiro

FelipeCastro Gutiérrez

Juan Pedro Viqueira

Marcus J. M. de Carvalho

Robert W. Slenes

Patricia R. Pessar

Luis Nicolau Parés

Jean Meyer

Patience A. Schell

Margarita Zárate

Guillermo de la Pena

Ilka Boaventura Leite

Maria Gabriela Hita

Helga Baitenmann

Matthew C. Gutmann

Alan Knight

“The wealth of the ethnographic data will certainly be of use for future scholars and interested individuals, and the volume as a whole presents an important addition to contemporary studies of politics and power – regardless of whether one will agree with Gledhill or with Sahlins.”
—Aleksandar Boškovic, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

“John Gledhill and Patience A. Schell’s edited volume, New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico, constitutes a welcome assessment of a major intellectual trend in the contemporary academic world…. the chapter case studies are well suited for introducing undergraduate students to questions of interpretation in history. The volume… should be of interest to specialists regardless of discipline.”—Alan Shane Dillingham, History: Reviews of New Books

“...the interdisciplinary and international aspects of the project, not to mention the ambitious interinstitutional collaboration sustaining it, add refreshing and innovative qualities to the final product.”—Clifford Welch, Hispanic American Historical Review

“The wealth of the ethnographic data will certainly be of use for future scholars and interested individuals, and the volume as a whole presents an important addition to contemporary studies of politics and power – regardless of whether one will agree with Gledhill or with Sahlins.”
—Aleksandar Boškovic, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

“John Gledhill and Patience A. Schell’s edited volume, New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico, constitutes a welcome assessment of a major intellectual trend in the contemporary academic world…. the chapter case studies are well suited for introducing undergraduate students to questions of interpretation in history. The volume… should be of interest to specialists regardless of discipline.”—Alan Shane Dillingham, History: Reviews of New Books

“...the interdisciplinary and international aspects of the project, not to mention the ambitious interinstitutional collaboration sustaining it, add refreshing and innovative qualities to the final product.”—Clifford Welch, Hispanic American Historical Review

“This collection offers extraordinarily rich and historically and ethnographically penetrating analyses of the concept of resistance, developing more nuanced and powerful applications of the concept based on detailed case studies from Mexico and Brazil. The authors are recognized authorities and the each present original work of great interest and value. The essays are outstanding and the introduction by John Gledhill and the concluding discussion by Alan Knight are masterful summaries of the complex issues that emerge in the essays.”—Donald Pollock, University at Buffalo, SUNY

“New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico is a fascinating collection. It gives a broad overview of the ‘resistance boom’ of the 1980s, while providing a serious critique from a more contemporary perspective. It puts scholars from different disciplines into conversation, and it introduces English-language readers to the work of Latin American scholars whose work is not as well known as it should be. This collection will be widely read, and it will stimulate debate.”—Jeffrey Lesser, author of A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980

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