The collective and the public in Latin America : cultural identities and political order / edited by Luis Roniger and Tamar Herzog.

"The origins of this work are in a series of meetings organized in the framework of the 49th Congress of Americanists in Quito, Ecuador, in July 1997"--Pref.

"This volume forms a sequel to Constructing collective identities and shaping public spheres : Latin American paths, published ... 1998"--Pref.

Space, order and group identities in a Spanish colonial town : Puebla de los Angeles / María Elena Martínez -- Territorial hierarchies and collective identities in late colonial and early independent Quito / Federica Morelli -- The legal system as a touchstone of identity in colonial New Mexico / Charles Cutter -- The implosion of the Spanish empire : emerging statehood and collective identities / François-Xavier Guerra -- The past in the present : the social construction of Miskitu ethnic identity in Sandinista Nicaragua / Claudia García -- Private organizations as global networks in early modern Spain and Spanish America / Tamar Herzog -- Networks, coalitions, and unstable relationships : Buenos Aires on the eve of independence / Zacarias Moutoukias -- Party and nation-state in the construction of collective identities : Uruguay in the nineteenth century / Tulio Halperin Donghi -- Bullfighting fiestas, clientelism and political identities in Northern Colombia / Cristina Escobar -- Politico-cultural models and collective action strategies : the Pobladores of Chile and Equador / Ton Salman -- he Rey Común: indigenous political discourse in eighteenth-century Alto Perú / S. Elizabeth Penry -- Passion and banality in Mexican history : the presidential persona / Claudio Lomnitz -- The Teenek Indian and the public Indian : Indians and public spheres in twentieth-century Northeast Mexico / Anath Ariel de Vidas -- Ambivalence acknowledged : Jewish identities and language strategies in contemporary Mexico / Adina Cimet -- The Chilean jaguar as a symbol of a new collective identity? : between neo-liberalism and limited democracy / Mario Sznajder.ajder.

Includes bibliographical references and index.