Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: The Frontier: Civilization and Barbarism
Introduction to Part I: What Is the Frontier?
Chapter 1. The Social Organization of Warfare
Geographical, Social, and Historical Background
Civilization, the Mother of Barbarism
The Transformation of Colonial Projects
Barbarism, the Mother of Civilization
Conclusions
Chapter 2. Honor and Ethnicity
Honor and Ethnicity in the Center
The Ideology of Honor on the Frontier
Honor and Ethnicity on the Frontier
Conclusions
Chapter 3. Honor and Gender: Purity and Valor
What Is Gender?
Nature, Culture, and Gender Honor
The State and the Construction of Gender Honor on the Frontier
Secular Rituals
Conclusions
Chapter 4. Honor and Class: Wealth and Occupation
Part 2. Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Order, Progress, and Resistance
Introduction to Part 2: State Formation, Hegemony, and the Construction of Subjectivities
Nation-State Formation and National Economic Development (1855-1910)
The Closing of the Frontier
Conclusions
Chapter 6. The Forms and Organization of Serrano Resistance, 1858-1920
Nonviolent Resistance (1858-1886)
Armed Struggle (1858-1886)
Nonviolent Resistance (1887-1910)
Armed Struggle (1887-1920)
Conclusions
Chapter 7. Progress as Disorder and Dishonor: Discourses of Serrano Resistance, 1858-1920
Capitalism as the Midas Touch
Blood, Gold, and the Rhetoric of Agrarian Grievance
Productive Activity and Wage Labor
Caciquismo
Conclusions
Chapter 8. Caciques at Home
Afterword. "Ya no hay Valiented": The Re-Presentation of the Past
Notes
Bibliography
Index