Life Is Hard Machismo, Danger and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua

Name: Life Is Hard Machismo, Danger and the Intimacy of Power in Nicaragua
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ISBN: 9780520089297

ISBN-10: 0520089294

ISBN-13: 9780520089297

Edition: 1994

Authors: Roger N. Lancaster

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"Rambo took the barrios by storm: Spanish videotapes of the movie were widely available, and nearly all the boys and young men had seen it, usually on the VCRs of their family's more affluent friends. . . . As one young Sandinista commented, 'Rambo is like the Nicaraguan soldier. He's a superman. And if the United States invades, we'll cut the marines down like Rambo did.' And then he mimicked Rambo's famous war howl and mimed his arc of machine gun fire. We both laughed."--from the book There is a Nicaragua that Americans have rarely seen or heard about, a nation of jarring political paradoxes and staggering social and cultural flux. In this Nicaragua, the culture of machismo still governs…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/30/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgments


This Book and Its Title


Personas


Introduction



Life



Junkyards



Beating One's Wife



Murdering One's Husband's Lover



Coping with Less: Compadrazgo, Friendship, and Provisioning



Chicken Soup; or, Gossip, Tradition, and the Anthropologist



Censoring La semana comica



Some Lives



Rolando



Flora



Osvaldo



Elvis



Roger



Maximo



Jaime



Jazmina



Virgilio



Power, Politics, and Personal Life



Dealing with Danger



The Negro of the Family



Subject Honor, Object Shame


Conclusion


Notes


References


Index