Cultural Complexes of Latin America

<p><i>Cultural Complexes of Latin America: South and the Soul </i>explores the theory and embodied reality that cultural complexes are powerful determinants in the attitudes, behaviour, and emotional life of individuals and groups.</p><p>The contributing authors, all from several Latin American countries, present compelling historical, anthropological, sociological, mythological, psychological, and personal perspectives on a part of the world that is full of promise and despair. Latin America is a region marked with psychic "fault lines" that cause disturbances in its populations on issues of social class, ethnicity, race, religion, gender, and even geography. Many of these "fault lines" appear to have their origins in the "basic fault" that occured with the conquest and colonization of the region, primarily by the Spanish and Portuguese. </p><p>This "basic fault" and its subsequent "fault lines" reside not only in various groups that compete for status, power, wealth, and meaning but in the psyche of every Latin American individual who carries the emotional memories and scars of conflicts that have coursed through their mixed blood for generations. </p> <p>Acknowledgments <strong>Latin America</strong> Introduction <b>Part 1: Brazil </b>1. South and the Soul 2. Cordial Racism: Race as a Cultural Complex 3. <i>Non Ducor, Duco, </i>I am not led, I lead 4. São Paulo and the Cultural Complexes of the City: Seeing through Graffiti 5. The Cultural Skin in Latin America <b>Part 2: Chile </b>6. At the Far End of the World: Exploring the Chilean Cultural Isolation Complex <b>Part 3: Colombia </b>7. In the Shadow of the Virgin Mary <b>Part 4: Mexico </b>8. The Right to Exist: Mexico's Spiritual Colonization 9. The Broken Bridge: Exploring the Mythic Core of Mexican Cultural Complexes <b>Part 5: Uruguay </b>10. The Official Story of Uruguay: Cultural Complexes Underlying What Was and Was Not Included <b>Part 6: Venezuela </b>11. The Gringo Complex 12. Latin America: A Region Split by its Cultural Complexes 13. Venezuela: Cultural Complexes in Contemporary Context </p>