To consider Pope Francis as a Criollo—a term I use here with its specifically Latin American connotation that contains both emancipatory and repressive histories—is to offer a new anthropological perspective on a current transformative moment
Introduction
A Decade of Religion and Society
Sondra L. Hausner, Ruy Llera Blanes, and Simon Coleman
investigates Pope Francis in light of his role as a Criollo, or Creole. Despite a theological premise prominent in Latin America that all humans share the blood of Christ, Francis's literal and symbolic role as a Criollo—both as a child of Italian parents in
Girls’ Work in a Rural Intercultural Setting
Formative Experiences and Identity in Peasant Childhood
Ana Padawer
-Guaraní indigenous people, colonos (descendants of European immigrants) and a majority of criollos (offspring of conqueror Spaniards born in America, some of them with an indigenous parent). My research focuses on the formative dimension of children
Los Roldán and the Inclusion of Travesti Narratives
Representations of Gender-Nonconforming Identities in Argentinian Telenovelas
Martín Ponti
order to do so, Laisa must cross borders not normally accessible to historically marginalized minorities. As suggested by Emilio's name, Uriarte de la Casa , the surname references the patrician- criollo landowning families that remained in power after
Book Reviews
On 20th Century Revolutionary Socialism, from Poland to Peru and beyond
Jean-Numa Ducange, Camila Vergara, Talat Ahmed, and Christian Høgsbjerg
Marxism, and the function of the ‘myth,’ the communal narrative of popular empowerment, in class consciousness and grassroots organising. Mariátegui's early life as a son of a seamstress of indigenous origins and a white criollo of aristocratic lineage
Landscapes and Races in Early Twentieth-Century Peru
The Travels of José Uriel García and Aurelio Miró Quesada Sosa
Rupert J. M. Medd
theoretical frameworks within which to situate their broader national politics. 21 Having wanderlust, Quesada Sosa felt anxious to visit all of Peru and dispel circulating myths that coastal criollos 22 could not see “the human or material values that form
Introduction
Exceptionalism and Necropolitical Security Dynamics in Olympic Rio de Janeiro
Margit Ystanes and Tomas Salem
white Europeans during the first decades of its existence ( Holloway 1993 ; see also Salem and Bertelsen, this issue). This mirrors how the Spanish crown upheld the privileges of peninsulars and criollos (persons born in the colonies to parents of
Community Capacity Building
Transforming Amerindian Sociality in Peruvian Amazonia
Christopher Hewlett
process of becoming nape. As Kelly states, ‘… sharing of knowledge not properly their own makes both shapori and educated Yanomami “capacitados”. This is but one instance of how the criollo technology of reading/writing resembles the shamanic
In The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 114–130