Title The Spanish Arcadia : sheep herding, pastoral discourse, and ethnicity in early modern Spain / Javier Irigoyen-Garcia

Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource Series Toronto Iberic Toronto Iberic. Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction : a country of shepherds -- Sheep herding and ethnocentrism in early modern Spain -- Contesting ethnocentrism within the arcadia -- Conclusion : Pan's labyrinth -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index Summary Annotation The Spanish Arcadia analyzes the figure of the shepherd in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish imaginary, exploring its centrality to the discourses on racial, cultural, and religious identity. Drawing on a wide range of documents, including theological polemics on blood purity, political treatises, manuals on animal husbandry, historiography, paintings, epic poems, and Spanish ballads, Javier Irigoyen-Garca argues that the figure of the shepherd takes on extraordinary importance in the reshaping of early modern Spanish identity. The Spanish Arcadia contextualizes pastoral romances within a broader framework and assesses how they inform other cultural manifestations. In doing so, Irigoyen-Garca provides incisive new ideas about the social and ethnocentric uses of the genre, as well as its interrelation with ideas of race, animal husbandry, and nation building in early modern Spain Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Legacy 2017 UoY NBK-R 9999 UKUoY Subject Shepherds -- Spain -- Social life and customs Sheepherding -- Spain -- History Pastoral systems -- Spain -- History Pastoral literature, Spanish -- History and criticism Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism Shepherds in literature. Ethnology -- Spain -- History POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Renaissance. Ethnology Historiography Pastoral literature, Spanish Pastoral systems Sheepherding Shepherds in literature Shepherds -- Social life and customs Spanish literature -- Classical period SUBJECT Spain -- Historiography Subject Spain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781442667662 1442667664

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