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Article: Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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Honor, Status, and Law in Modern Latin America, edited by Sueann Caulfield, Sarah C. Chambers, and Lara Putnam. Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press, 2005. viii, 330 pp. $89.95 US (cloth), $24.95 US (paper).
The study of honour has traditionally been cast as a topic for Mediterranean cultures and, more frequently, early periods of history. In the last decade, however, scholars of honour have broken down these traditional boundaries, and this topic has been broached by historians of regions far from the Mediterranean. More recently, among historians of Latin America, it has migrated from colonial settings to the national period. This anthology examines ...