Gauchos, Gringos and Gallegos: The Assimilation of Italian and Spanish Immigrants in the Making of Modern Uruguay 1880-1930

Goebel, Michael

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“…Of the two Italian blues , azzurro “sky blue” includes a subset of blues with smaller h uv values and higher L * values, and with a color space similar to that of Uruguayan sky blue . This similarity suggests the emergence of this second blue , termed celeste “sky blue,” in Uruguayan as a result of substantial Italian immigration to Uruguay during the Nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Goebel, 2010 ), as well as to other the South American countries (as with aforementioned Spanish dialects). Along with language contact, a linguistic factor could have played a role.…”

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Basic Color Terms (BCTs) and Categories (BCCs) in Three Dialects of the Spanish Language: Interaction Between Cultural and Universal Factors

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Two experiments were performed to identify and compare the Basic Color Terms (BCTs) and the Basic Color Categories (BCCs) included in three dialects (Castilian, Mexican, and Uruguayan) of the Spanish language. Monolexemic Elicited lists were used in the first experiment to identify the BCTs of each dialect. Eleven BCTs appeared for the Spanish and the Mexican, and twelve did so for the Uruguayan. The six primary BCTs (rojo “red,” verde “green,” amarillo “yellow,” azul “blue,” negro “black,” and blanco “white”) appeared in the three dialects. This occurred for only three derived BCTs (gris “gray,” naranja “orange,” and rosa “pink”) but not for the other five derived BCTs (celeste “sky blue,” marrón “brown,” café “brown,” morado “purple,” and violeta “purple”). Color transitions were used in the second experiment for two different tasks. Extremes naming task was used to determine the relation between two different dialects' BCTs: equality, equivalence or difference. The results provided the first evidence for marrón “brown” and café “brown” being equivalent terms for the same BCC (brown in English) as is the case of morado “purple” and violeta “purple.” Uruguayan celeste “sky blue” had no equivalent BCT in the other two dialects. Boundary delimitation task required the selection of the color in the boundary between two categories. The task was used to reasonably estimate the volume occupied by each BCC in the color space considering its chromatic area and lightness range. Excluding sky blue (celeste “sky blue”) and blue (azul “blue”), the other BCCs color volumes were similar across the three dialects. Uruguayan sky blue and blue volumes conjointly occupied the portion of the color space corresponding to the Castilian and Mexican blue BCC. The fact that the BCT celeste “sky blue” only appeared in Uruguayan very probably derived from specific cultural factors (the use of the color in the flags and the arrival of an important number of Italian immigrants). Nevertheless, these cultural factors seem to nurture from a perceptive structuring of the color space, which nature is universal, as the boundaries of this category can be delimited from the responses of Spanish and Mexican participants.

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Basic Color Terms (BCTs) and Categories (BCCs) in Three Dialects of the Spanish Language: Interaction Between Cultural and Universal Factors

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“…Quantitatively, researchers who have closely studied the phenomenon of Uruguayan immigration and demographics in the period of interest , elaborate extensively on the lack of reliable data (Rial 1980;Rodríguez and Sapriza 1983: 18;Oddone 1966a;1966b: 12;Pereira and Trajtenberg 1966;Goebel 2010) 4 . Limited data produced exaggerations among earlier analysis (see Valliant 1873; Bordoni 1885 cited in Rodríguez and Sapriza 1983) leading to more rigorous studies in the 1960s that attempted to reconstruct a plausible history of both immigration and emigration using the most dependable data available (Oddone 1966a;Pereira and Trajtenberg 1966) 5 .…”

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Explaining How Uruguay Became a “Religious Ghetto”

Armet¹

2018

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Given Latin America's historical and robust religiosity, how do sociologists explain that Uruguay became an extremely secular society since the turn of the twentieth century? Earliest attempts to interpret and explain Uruguayan secular society came in the 1960s from Uruguayan scholars. Typically, these studies were produced by religious practitioners, or at least researchers sympathetic to religion, who attributed weak religiosity, at least weak Catholicism, to two factors: the lack of a colonial heritage and European immigration. Counterfactuals to the "weak institution" and the "social base" claims are based on new research, especially as it pertains to immigration and settlement patterns among Italian and Spanish immigrants. The counter-arguments presented here, while not entirely invalidating the "social base" and "weak institutional church" claims, make it more difficult to assume that urban demographics and ecclesiastical history in Uruguay are significantly correlated to the secularization of Uruguayan society. This study is important because it creates theoretical space that should stimulate researchers to consider alternative causes for Uruguayan secular society that provide greater explanatory power by integrating historically contingent evidence in the context of theoretical explanation.

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“…En el mencionado estudio de Michael Goebel (2010), el historiador recurre al relevamiento de inscripciones matrimoniales del Registro Civil, con lo cual amplía considerablemente las fuentes de datos disponibles. Dicha fuente complementa la falta de información resultado de la ausencia de censos sistemáticos hasta un período muy reciente.…”

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“…Goebel (2010) estima hasta un setenta porciento. Las razones para no quedarse en el país pudieron ser muy distintas y difíciles de determinar, desde económicas, familiares y hasta raciales.…”

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Mitos y realidades de la inmigración europea en el paisaje rural de la literatura uruguaya (1920-1950)

Giaudrone

2018

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El presente ensayo confronta diferentes visiones del inmigrante europeo en la literatura uruguaya de temática y ambiente rural con estudios recientes en el área de las ciencias sociales sobre inmigración en el Río de la Plata durante la primera mitad del siglo XX. A través del análisis de una selección de poemas de Fernán Silva Valdés y cuentos y ensayos de Juan José Morosoli, el artículo busca determinar mitos y realidades en la representación del inmigrante y su proceso de asimilación a la sociedad del período. Asimismo, el ensayo argumenta contra la simplificación del proceso de integración del inmigrante a la sociedad uruguaya que predomina tanto en la historiografía como en la crítica literaria tradicional. KEY WORDS: inmigración europea en el Río de la Plata; asimilación; nativismo; Fernán Silva Valdés; Juan José Morosoli. Al comparar el corpus literario uruguayo con el argentino en "Fuentes uruguayas para la historia de la inmigración italiana", Juan Oddone (1992) se lamenta del "vacío desconcertante" al cual debe enfrentarse el investigador que busque en cuentos, novelas, crónicas costumbristas o teatro popular uruguayo, materiales que documenten la experiencia de la inmigración:

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Gauchos, Gringos and Gallegos: The Assimilation of Italian and Spanish Immigrants in the Making of Modern Uruguay 1880-1930

Cited by 15 publications

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Basic Color Terms (BCTs) and Categories (BCCs) in Three Dialects of the Spanish Language: Interaction Between Cultural and Universal Factors

Basic Color Terms (BCTs) and Categories (BCCs) in Three Dialects of the Spanish Language: Interaction Between Cultural and Universal Factors

Explaining How Uruguay Became a “Religious Ghetto”

Mitos y realidades de la inmigración europea en el paisaje rural de la literatura uruguaya (1920-1950)

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