The Lima of Joaquín Capelo
A Latin American archetype
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10076348 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard M Morse (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 95-110 |
| Publication date | 1969-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0094 • E-ISSN: 1461-7250 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/002200946900400306 |
| OpenAlex | W2023548714 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The City as a Social Organism One of the most thoughtful and comprehensive books ever written about a Latin American city is Joaquin Capelo's Sociologia de Lima. This neglected study of a late nineteenth-century capital deserves at least the recognition widely accorded to Juan Agustin Garcia's classic work on colonial Buenos Aires, La ciudad indiana (900o). What gives Capelo's book its distinctive character is his integral perception of the city in its historical, physical, sociological, institutional, economic, and moral dimensions.l For all the current popularity of urban studies, the social scientist today seems unable to achieve this synoptic vision. Lingering (or malingering) at the urban threshold, he weighs alternate 'approaches',2 stumbles over definitions, compiles 'indicators'; he extrapolates from analyses of urban social groups and subsystems, and attempts reductive formulations of the urban 'ethos
Ancient history · Archetype · Art · Latin Americans · Literature · Political science · History · Latin American Urban Studies · Law · Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,02 |
| Citation span | 1971 - 1971 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |