| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.3

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Book Review

Caribbean and Latin America

Carlos Alberto Garcés. El cuerpo como texto: La problemática del castigo corporal en el siglo XVIII. San Salvador de Jujuy: Universidad Nacional de Jujuy. 1999. Pp. 238.

This is a frustrating but rewarding book that makes important contributions to the growing scholarship on crime and punishment in Latin America. Carlos Alberto Garcés's intimate knowledge of the little-known regional archives of Jujuy and Tucumán (provinces in northern Argentina), mastery of complex Spanish colonial penology, solid historiographical insights, and sophisticated theoretical critique will more than compensate scholars (but probably not nonspecialists) for the book's difficulties. 1

The book is divided into three sections. The first section provides an overview of the theoretical literature on crime and punishment with extended critiques of two classics, Georg Rusche and Otto Kirchheimer's Punishment and Social Structure (1939; 1968) and Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1977; 1995). The second uses court records to look at crime and criminals in eighteenth-century Jujuy and Tucumán. The third mixes theory, historiography, and a variety of primary sources—court records, imperial decrees, legal codes—to uncover the cultural logic of punishment during the eighteenth century and to situate that logic in local context. . . .

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