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Title Minor omissions : children in Latin American history and society / edited by Tobias Hecht.

Publication Info. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 277 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Living in Latin America
Living in Latin America.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Sketches of childhood : children in colonial Andean art and society / Carolyn Dean -- Model children and models for children in early Mexico / Sonya Lipsett-Rivera -- Historical perspectives on illegitimacy and illegitimates in Latin America / Nara Milanich -- Down and out in Havana : foundlings in eighteenth century Cuba / Ondina E. González -- Minor offenses : youth, crime, and law in eighteenth century Lima / Bianca Premo.
State, the family, and marginal children in Latin America / Donna J. Guy -- Child-saving movement in Brazil : ideology in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Irene Rizzini -- How Haitian artists disclose childhood of all ages / LeGrace Benson -- Victims, heroes, enemies : children in Central American wars / Anna L. Peterson, Kay Almere Read -- August / Bruna Verissimo -- Children and contemporary Latin America / Tobias Hecht -- Children's rebellion / Cristina Peri Rossi.
Summary Annotation Editor Hecht argues that the experiences of children in Latin American history are far more than forgotten "curios" in an otherwise well understood story, instead forming an integral part of Latin America that cannot be disentangled from "adult society." Predominately coming from the field of history (but including contributions from literature, religion, anthropology, and art) 10 essays and one short story explore the historiography of Latin American childhood. Topics include the competing sets of beliefs about model children among colonized and colonizing peoples; the impact of legitimate or illegitimate birth status on childhood experience the social rights bestowed on infants at an 18th-century Cuban orphanage; the relationships between crime, childhood, and the state; the impact of civil wars; and the relationships between society, art, and childhood. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Subject Children -- Latin America -- History.
Children.
Latin America.
History.
Indexed Term Niños América Latina Historia.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Aufsatzsammlung.
History.
Electronic books.
Subject Children.
Added Author Hecht, Tobias, 1964-
Other Form: Print version: Minor omissions. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2002 9780299180348 (DLC) 2002003993 (OCoLC)49383585
ISBN 9780299180331 electronic book
0299180336 electronic book
0299180301 cloth alkaline paper
9780299180300 cloth alkaline paper
0299180344 paperback alkaline paper
9780299180348 paperback alkaline paper
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