The Lima of Joaquín Capelo: a Latin American archetype
1969; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 4; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1177/002200946900400306
ISSN1461-7250
Autores Tópico(s)Mexican Socioeconomic and Environmental Dynamics
ResumoThe 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'.
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