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This concept is represented as a centaur who must be killed in a speech by a drunken “specter” who later ends a family feud near a grove that a Yaruro (“yah-ROO-roh”) chief cursed with storms. A one-eyed alligator apparently eats a woman named for this concept (-5[1])whose supernatural “Partner” helps her turn La Barquereña (“bar-kay-RAIN-yuh”) into El Miedo (“mee-YAY-doh”). Horace Mann’s wife Mary translated a book from the Generation of 1837 that symbolizes this concept with mandatory red ribbons and contrasts it with Porfirio Díaz’s científicos (“see-en-TEE-fee-kohs”). The lawyer (10[1])Santos Lizardo reclaims the hacienda (“ahss-YEN-duh”) Altamira (10[1])from a woman named for this concept in a novel by Rómulo Gallegos (“gah-YAY-gohss”). A caudillo(“cow-DEE-yo”) called the “tiger of the plains” personifies this concept (10[1])alongside his ally Juan Manuel de (-5[1])Rosas. For (-5[2])10 points, gauchos represent (10[1]-5[1])what (10[1])concept in (-5[2])Domingo F. Sarmiento’s (-5[1])Facundo, which contrasts it (-5[1])with civilization? ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

ANSWER: barbarism [or word forms of barbarity, barbarians, barbarous, barbarie, or bárbaro; accept Doña Bárbara or Lady Barbara or Barbarita; prompt on Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism or Facundo: Civilización y Barbarie until “civilization” is read and accept afterwards; prompt on terror or violence or violencia by asking “the book identifies it as an aspect of what central concept?”]
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Eshan PantNYUMaryland44-5
Matt JacksonChicago ANorth Carolina A8410
Jason HongBrownBerkeley A9010
Jakob MyersIndianaStanford11310
Charles HangWUSTL AColumbia A119-5
Andrew WangIllinoisJohns Hopkins121-5
Anuttam RamjiBerkeley BVanderbilt121-5
Bryan UgazArizona StateToronto B12510
Ashish SubramanianDukeYale B125-5
Mattias EhatammWaterlooTexas12610
Raymond WangCornell AMinnesota A128-5
Hayden PratherFloridaWUSTL B128-5
Joy AnHarvardMcGill131-5
Andrew EllisKentuckyCornell B135-5
Forrest WeintraubColumbia AWUSTL A13810
Sam BakerMcGillHarvard1380
Liam StarnesChicago CNorth Carolina B1390
Graham TroyNorth Carolina BChicago C1390
Aum MundheRutgersClaremont Colleges13910
Sanjay SrihariGeorgia TechMichigan13910
Sinecio MoralesJohns HopkinsIllinois1390
Karthik PrasadCornell BKentucky1390
Caleb KendrickMarylandNYU13910
Ethan AshbrookMinnesota ACornell A13910
Robert CondronChicago BPurdue13910
Andrew SalijNorthwesternToronto A13910
Sky LiToronto ANorthwestern1390
Gavin MarkoffVanderbiltBerkeley B1390
Joseph ChambersVirginiaPenn1390
Amith PunyalaWUSTL BFlorida1390
Ben SterlingYale BDuke1390