Popular culture and regional society in nineteenth-century Maranhão, Brazil

Reconstructs the development of popular culture in the province of Maranhao in northern Brazil, and attempts to explain the uniqueness of its rural subculture, its unity as well as its internal subdivisions. Shows that popular culture is the result of a permanent confrontation between the subculture...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Bulletin of Latin American research 1995-09, Vol.14 (3), p.265-286
1. Verfasser:	Rohrig Assuncao, Matthias
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Brazil Brazilian culture Catholicism Class Relations Colonialism Culture Elites History (19th century) Indian culture Latin America Maranhão Nineteenth Century Peasant class Plantations Popular Culture Regional identity Slavery Slaves Social History Social structure Society of Jesus Subculture Subcultures White people
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Zusammenfassung:	Reconstructs the development of popular culture in the province of Maranhao in northern Brazil, and attempts to explain the uniqueness of its rural subculture, its unity as well as its internal subdivisions. Shows that popular culture is the result of a permanent confrontation between the subculture of the different subordinated groups on one hand and elite interventions on the other.
ISSN:	0261-3050 1470-9856
DOI:	10.1016/0261-3050(94)00039-J