La Conquista del Peru

Suggesting that better understanding of conflicts between Anglo and Latin America can come from the study of their contrasting popular fictions, the author compares the traditional attachment in Latin America to government by a strong man—a caudillo—to the diametrically opposed expansionist frontier ideology of the United States—the cowboy—who makes space safe for Anglo colonization.

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«[...] En to dos los temas de opinion el pacto social, o el principio por el cual la sociedad se mantiene unida, requiere que la mayoria de las opiniones se convierta en regla para el conjunto y que la minoria rinda obediencia practica a la misma. Esto es perfectamente conforme con el principio de igualdad de derechos, porque, en primer lugar, todo hombre tiene derecho a dar una opinion, pero ningun hombre tiene derecho a que su opinion gobierne a los demas. [...]»

Este trabajo tiene como objeto analizar las estructuras familiares a la luz de los matrimonios y las uniones consensuales, de los bautismos y las abigarradas relaciones y redes sociales que se desarrollan en torno a ellos, como asimismo interpretar algunas pautas de la sexualidad pampeana colonial en relación con la ilegitimidad y el concubinato.