Marginated Groups in Spanish and Portuguese History

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Proceedings Of The Seventeenth Annual Meeting Of The Society For Spanish And Portuguese Historical Studies University Of Minnesota, Minneapolis, April 1986
Edited by William D. Phillips, Jr. and Carla Rahn Phillips

“The articles included here were presented originally as conference papers at the seventeenth annual meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, an organization founded in 1969 by a group of scholars in the United States to foster research and scholarly interchange on Iberian topics. In the two decades since its inception, the Society has grown to include several hundred individual and institutional members in the United States and abroad. Many of the members are interested primarily in history, but others specialize in anthropology, art history, political science, literature, geography and other disciplines. The society has provided means for intellectual exchange by the publication of a Bulletin and through annual conferences. The conferences, held annually since 1969, have been hosted by various universities and research institutions in the United States, Canada, and Spain. They reflect the widespread and growing interest in Iberian historical topics and the lively scholarly activity of the members of the society.
In 1986, the seventeenth annual meeting was in Minneapolis, at the University of Minnesota, with a theme of “Marginated Groups in Spanish and Portuguese History.” The program was organized by Stephen Haliczer, with assistance from Miriam Lee Kaprow and Carla Rahn Phillips. Susan Tax Freeman, whose essay opens this collection, began the conference with an anthropological analysis of the varieties of margination and a plea for care in their application to Spanish and Portuguese history. Two and a half days of sessions followed, with a range of papers presented, thirty in all, many dealing with some aspect of marginality.” in Introduction