Cultural complexes of Latin America : voices of the South / senior editor Thomas Singer ; edited by Pilar Amezaga, Gustavo Barcellos, Axel Capriles M., Jacqueline Gerson, and Denise G. Ramos.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.

©2024

x, 222 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

"Cultural Complexes of Latin America: voices of the South explores the theory and embodied reality that cultural complexes are powerful determinants in the attitudes, behaviour, and emotional life of individuals and groups. The contributing authors, all from several Latin American countries, present compelling historical, anthropological, sociological, mythological, psychological, and personal perspectives on a part of the world that is full of promise and despair. Latin America is a region marked with psychic "fault lines" that cause disturbances in its populations on issues of social class, ethnicity, race, religion, gender, and even geography. Many of these "fault lines" appear to have their origins in the "basic fault" that occurred with the conquest and colonization of the region, primarily by the Spanish and Portuguese. This "basic faults" and its subsequent "fault lines" reside not only in various groups that compete for status, power, wealth, and meaning but in the psyche of every Latin American individual who carries the emotional memories and scars of conflicts that have coursed through their mixed blood for generations"-- Provided by publisher.

Voices of the South

Online version: Cultural complexes of Latin America Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024

English

March 12, 2024

Includes blibliographical references and index.