Nara B Milanich
Biographic Data
| ID | 3480255 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nara B Milanich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nara B |
| FAMILY NAME | Milanich |
| SIGNATURE | MILANICH N B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Barnard College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Money Talks: Narrator Compensation in Oral History
There is little public discussion about the compensation of narrators in oral history and no guidelines regarding the practice. This article seeks to open up a conversation about this issue. Drawing on our experience developing an oral history project with Central American migrant families, we discuss why we came to believe that paying project participants was appropriate and necessary. We review arguments for and against compensation and make a …
Children of Fate: Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850–1930
In modern Latin America, profound social inequalities have persisted despite the promise of equality. Nara B. Milanich argues that social and legal practices surrounding family and kinship have helped produce and sustain these inequalities. Tracing families both elite and plebeian in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Chile, she focuses on a group largely invisible in Latin American historiography: children. The concept of family consti…
Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father
For most of human history, paternity was uncertain. Blood types, fingerprinting, and, recently, DNA analysis promised to solve the riddle of paternity. But even genetic certainty did not end the quest for the father. Rather, as Nara Milanich reveals, it confirms the social, cultural, and political nature of the age-old question: Who's your father
Dispatches from “Baby Jail” in South Texas: Lawyers and other volunteers have provided assistance to women and child refugees in family detention centers since 2014. Under Trump, uncertainty reigns
Latin American Childhoods and the Concept of Modernity
To Make All Children Equal is a Change in the Power Structures of Society: The Politics of Family Law in Twentieth Century Chile and Latin America
In 1999, Chile became the last country in Latin America to grant full equality to all children regardless of the marital status of their parents. The Law of Filiation (Ley de Filiación) declared all children's right to know their origins, receive support from their progenitors, and participate equally in inheritance. Both supporters and critics hailed the law as transcendental, one of the most significant reforms to civil law since the promulgati…
La maternidad y las mujeres de sectores populares en las Transferencias Condicionadas de Ingresos Un aporte al debate sobre el cuidado y las relaciones de género
Este artículo enfoca específicas articulaciones, entre lasdesigualdades sociales y de género, alrededor del problema de laregulación estatal de las estrategias de sobrevivencia y el cuidado, apartir de examinar las relaciones entre beneficiarias, los miembros desus familias y las comunidades, y cómo las TCI cambian, refuerzan odan forma a estas relaciones sociales. El argumento central es queel énfasis en las mujeres en tanto madres, si bien perm…
The Historiography of Latin American Families
This article describes the methods and frameworks that historians have been used to examine Latin American families. It goes on to sketch some of their findings, and speculate about the reasons why family has become marginalized as a category of historical inquiry. It tacks back and forth between scholarship written in the vein of family history and work that addresses such issues as domesticity and patriarchy but does not necessarily take family…
Women, Children, and the Social Organization of Domestic Labor in Chile
This article explores the relationship of domestic labor and social reproduction in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Chile, paying particular attention to the roles of children. Children figured as products of women's reproductive labors, but they were also themselves crucial members of a domestic labor force structured by age as well as gender. Drawing on classified employment ads, judicial cases, and the records of Santiago's main orphan…
Whither Family History? A Road Map from Latin America
Family values are back with a vengeance. As pundits pontificate and spin doctors strategize, historians of the family have periodically joined in the fray. Scholars have appeared in the popular media offering historical perspectives on marriage and divorce, childhood, cohabitation, working mothers, child custody, and same-sex unions. The family is an institution peculiarly subject to mythification, and more often than not, historians have sought …
Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority, and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima
Bianca Premo’s engaging and important study of childhood “as it was both lived and imagined” in colonial Lima (p. 2) operates on two levels: it is both a history of actual children and childhood, and it is about generational relations as a metaphor of colonial rule. According to Premo, these two threads of inquiry are entangled, for “the social history of children . . . cannot be separated from . . . the overarching political ideology that bound …
From Domestic Servant to Working-Class Housewife: Women, Labor, and Family in Chile
In 1867, Madre Bernarda Morin, Mother Superior of Santiago's foundling home, submitted an extensive report to the Chilean government on the functioning of the institution. Like its counterparts elsewhere in Latin America and Europe, the Casa de Huérfanos of Santiago received legions of needy children each year. The majority were young infants of illegitimate birth, many were ill and they derived overwhelmingly from the most destitute social secto…
The Casa de Huerfanos and Child Circulation in Late-Nineteenth-Century Chile
This essay examines the Casa de Huérfanos, the largest and most important orphanage in Santiago, Chile in the late nineteenth century, through the lens of child circulation. By child circulation, I refer to a diverse constellation of practices, from apprenticeship to adoption, in which minors were reared outside their natal households by unrelated caretakers. Child circulation has been a ubiquitous practice in Latin American and Caribbean societi…
Los hijos del pecado: Ilegitimidad y vida familiar en la Santafé de Bogotá colonial
In recent years historians of the family have turned their attention to illegitimacy, concubinage, and other “illicit” aspects of domestic life in the Latin American past. This burgeoning literature, however, includes few full-length monographs that place such phenomena in a broad social and political context. Guiomar Dueñas Vargas’s book on eighteenth-century Santafé de Bogotá is a welcome contribution in this regard. What her book does best is …
The Casa de Huerfanos and Child Circulation in Late-Nineteenth-Century Chile
This essay examines the Casa de Huérfanos, the largest and most important orphanage in Santiago, Chile in the late nineteenth century, through the lens of child circulation. By child circulation, I refer to a diverse constellation of practices, from apprenticeship to adoption, in which minors were reared outside their natal households by unrelated caretakers. Child circulation has been a ubiquitous practice in Latin American and Caribbean societi…
Women, Children, and the Social Organization of Domestic Labor in Chile
This article explores the relationship of domestic labor and social reproduction in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Chile, paying particular attention to the roles of children. Children figured as products of women's reproductive labors, but they were also themselves crucial members of a domestic labor force structured by age as well as gender. Drawing on classified employment ads, judicial cases, and the records of Santiago's main orphan…
To Make All Children Equal is a Change in the Power Structures of Society: The Politics of Family Law in Twentieth Century Chile and Latin America
In 1999, Chile became the last country in Latin America to grant full equality to all children regardless of the marital status of their parents. The Law of Filiation (Ley de Filiación) declared all children's right to know their origins, receive support from their progenitors, and participate equally in inheritance. Both supporters and critics hailed the law as transcendental, one of the most significant reforms to civil law since the promulgati…
Los hijos del pecado: Ilegitimidad y vida familiar en la Santafé de Bogotá colonial
In recent years historians of the family have turned their attention to illegitimacy, concubinage, and other “illicit” aspects of domestic life in the Latin American past. This burgeoning literature, however, includes few full-length monographs that place such phenomena in a broad social and political context. Guiomar Dueñas Vargas’s book on eighteenth-century Santafé de Bogotá is a welcome contribution in this regard. What her book does best is …
The Casa de Huerfanos and Child Circulation in Late-Nineteenth-Century Chile
This essay examines the Casa de Huérfanos, the largest and most important orphanage in Santiago, Chile in the late nineteenth century, through the lens of child circulation. By child circulation, I refer to a diverse constellation of practices, from apprenticeship to adoption, in which minors were reared outside their natal households by unrelated caretakers. Child circulation has been a ubiquitous practice in Latin American and Caribbean societi…
From Domestic Servant to Working-Class Housewife: Women, Labor, and Family in Chile
In 1867, Madre Bernarda Morin, Mother Superior of Santiago's foundling home, submitted an extensive report to the Chilean government on the functioning of the institution. Like its counterparts elsewhere in Latin America and Europe, the Casa de Huérfanos of Santiago received legions of needy children each year. The majority were young infants of illegitimate birth, many were ill and they derived overwhelmingly from the most destitute social secto…
Whither Family History? A Road Map from Latin America
Family values are back with a vengeance. As pundits pontificate and spin doctors strategize, historians of the family have periodically joined in the fray. Scholars have appeared in the popular media offering historical perspectives on marriage and divorce, childhood, cohabitation, working mothers, child custody, and same-sex unions. The family is an institution peculiarly subject to mythification, and more often than not, historians have sought …
Children of the Father King: Youth, Authority, and Legal Minority in Colonial Lima
Bianca Premo’s engaging and important study of childhood “as it was both lived and imagined” in colonial Lima (p. 2) operates on two levels: it is both a history of actual children and childhood, and it is about generational relations as a metaphor of colonial rule. According to Premo, these two threads of inquiry are entangled, for “the social history of children . . . cannot be separated from . . . the overarching political ideology that bound …
Women, Children, and the Social Organization of Domestic Labor in Chile
This article explores the relationship of domestic labor and social reproduction in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Chile, paying particular attention to the roles of children. Children figured as products of women's reproductive labors, but they were also themselves crucial members of a domestic labor force structured by age as well as gender. Drawing on classified employment ads, judicial cases, and the records of Santiago's main orphan…
The Historiography of Latin American Families
This article describes the methods and frameworks that historians have been used to examine Latin American families. It goes on to sketch some of their findings, and speculate about the reasons why family has become marginalized as a category of historical inquiry. It tacks back and forth between scholarship written in the vein of family history and work that addresses such issues as domesticity and patriarchy but does not necessarily take family…
La maternidad y las mujeres de sectores populares en las Transferencias Condicionadas de Ingresos Un aporte al debate sobre el cuidado y las relaciones de género
Este artículo enfoca específicas articulaciones, entre lasdesigualdades sociales y de género, alrededor del problema de laregulación estatal de las estrategias de sobrevivencia y el cuidado, apartir de examinar las relaciones entre beneficiarias, los miembros desus familias y las comunidades, y cómo las TCI cambian, refuerzan odan forma a estas relaciones sociales. El argumento central es queel énfasis en las mujeres en tanto madres, si bien perm…
Latin American Childhoods and the Concept of Modernity
To Make All Children Equal is a Change in the Power Structures of Society: The Politics of Family Law in Twentieth Century Chile and Latin America
In 1999, Chile became the last country in Latin America to grant full equality to all children regardless of the marital status of their parents. The Law of Filiation (Ley de Filiación) declared all children's right to know their origins, receive support from their progenitors, and participate equally in inheritance. Both supporters and critics hailed the law as transcendental, one of the most significant reforms to civil law since the promulgati…
Dispatches from “Baby Jail” in South Texas: Lawyers and other volunteers have provided assistance to women and child refugees in family detention centers since 2014. Under Trump, uncertainty reigns
Paternity: The Elusive Quest for the Father
For most of human history, paternity was uncertain. Blood types, fingerprinting, and, recently, DNA analysis promised to solve the riddle of paternity. But even genetic certainty did not end the quest for the father. Rather, as Nara Milanich reveals, it confirms the social, cultural, and political nature of the age-old question: Who's your father
Children of Fate: Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850–1930
In modern Latin America, profound social inequalities have persisted despite the promise of equality. Nara B. Milanich argues that social and legal practices surrounding family and kinship have helped produce and sustain these inequalities. Tracing families both elite and plebeian in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Chile, she focuses on a group largely invisible in Latin American historiography: children. The concept of family consti…
Money Talks: Narrator Compensation in Oral History
There is little public discussion about the compensation of narrators in oral history and no guidelines regarding the practice. This article seeks to open up a conversation about this issue. Drawing on our experience developing an oral history project with Central American migrant families, we discuss why we came to believe that paying project participants was appropriate and necessary. We review arguments for and against compensation and make a …
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Latin Americans (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Genealogy (3 works)