Latin American Popular Culture Book

	Introduction	xi
1	Piety and Public Space: The Cemetery Campaign in Veracruz, 1789-1810	1
2	Church, Humboldt, and Darwin: The Tension and Harmony of Art and Science	27
3	Black Kings, Blackface Carnival, and Nineteenth-Century Origins of the Tango	43
4	Peddling the Pampas: Argentina at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889	61
5	Death and Disorder in Mexico City: The State Funeral of Manuel Romero Rubio	87
6	Images of Indians in the Construction of Ecuadorian Identity at the End of the Nineteenth Century	105
7	Many Chefs in the National Kitchen: Cookbooks and Identity in Nineteenth-Century Mexico	123
8	Portraits of a Possible Nation: Photographing Medicine in Brazil	143
9	The New Order: Diversions and Modernization in Turn-of-the-Century Lima	155
10	From the Ruins of the Ancien Regime: Mexico's Monument to the Revolution	169
11	Racial Parity and National Humor: Exploring Brazilian Samba from Noel Rosa to Carmen Miranda, 1930-1939	183
12	Oil, Race, and Calypso in Trinidad and Tobago, 1909-1990	201
13	The Dictator's Seduction: Gender and State Spectacle during the Trujillo Regime	213
	Video Distributors	241
	About the Contributors	243
	Index	247