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  • Struggles over an ‘Old, Nasty, and Inconvenient Monopoly’: Municipal Slaughterhouses and the Meat Industry in Rio de Janeiro, 1880–1920s

  • MARIA-APARECIDA LOPES
  • Journal:
    Journal of Latin American Studies / Volume 47 / Issue 2 / May 2015
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    22 August 2014, pp. 349-376
    Print publication:
    May 2015

  • This paper examines the meat supply system in Rio de Janeiro from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s. For a period of time the city's monopoly over meat processing and retailing guaranteed a steady supply at predictable prices. However, at the turn of the century, ‘interlopers’, as municipal officials labelled those who attempted to introduce their product into Rio's market, began to question this century-old monopoly. Hence, for a relatively short period, Rio de Janeiro implemented a number of measures: curtailing the long-standing custom of clandestine slaughtering; establishing a centralised and somewhat regulated public abattoir system; and, finally, introducing meat-packing companies. This study considers these developments by undertaking a broader inquiry into how they affected per capita meat availability in Rio de Janeiro from the 1890s to the 1920s.

  • The Dark Side of Social Desire: Violence as Metaphor, Fantasy and Satire in Argentina, 1969–1975

  • SEBASTIÁN CARASSAI
  • Journal:
    Journal of Latin American Studies / Volume 47 / Issue 1 / February 2015
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 August 2014, pp. 31-63
    Print publication:
    February 2015
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  • The 1970s was the most violent decade of the entire twentieth century for Argentina. Its first half was characterised by the rise of political radicalisation, and its second by the reign of state repression. Studies devoted to investigating the issue of violence in the 1970s have concentrated fundamentally on the protagonists. By contrast, this article offers an analysis of the symbolic terrain, shifting focus from the conscious to the unconscious plane, from the real to the imaginary world. Dealing with visual representations of violence in popular culture, especially advertising in mass-circulation magazines, it explores how violence became naturalised during the first half of the 1970s. In so doing it adds an additional layer to our understanding of the social mood that preceded the military coup of March 1976.

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