Cleansing Honor with Blood: Masculinity, Violence, and Power in the Backlands of Northeast Brazil, 1845a 1889

Author/Contributor(s):	Santos, Martha
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	01/11/2012
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

Cleansing Honor with Blood examines the daily experiences of interpersonal violence, the elaboration of masculine identities around honor and the practice of violence, and the contests for power and authority among free poor men from the hinterlands of the northeastern Brazilian province of Ceará between 1845 and 1889.