| Description |
1 online resource (266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Mélange, chaos, westernization -- Amazons -- Mélange and mestizo -- The shock of conquest -- Westernization -- Mestizo imagery -- The lady centaur and the monkey -- Mexican Ovid -- The invasion of grotesques, or, moving images -- The language of grotesques and glyphs -- Mestizo creativity -- Wolf, rain, and rainbow -- Crossing the sea -- Colonizing heaven -- Sibylline grotto -- Happy together |
| Summary |
Mestizo: a person of mixed blood; specifically, a person of mixed European and American Indian ancestry. Serge Gruzinski, the renowned historian of Latin America, offers a brilliant, original critique of colonization and globalization in The Mestizo Mind. Looking at the fifteenth-century colonization of Latin America, Gruzinski documents the mélange that resulted: colonized mating with colonizers; Indians joining the Catholic Church and colonial government; and Amerindian visualizations of Jesus and Perseus. These physical and cultural encounters crea |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-256) and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the French |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Lateinamerika gnd |
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Mestizaje -- Latin America
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Miscegenation in art.
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Acculturation -- History
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Mestizaje.
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- General.
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
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Miscegenation in art
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Acculturation
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Civilization
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Mestizaje
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Kulturaustausch
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Kolonialismus
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Mestizisierung
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Latin America -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074881
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Latin America
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136697333 |
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1136697330 |
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9781315023267 |
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1315023261 |
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9781136697401 |
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1136697403 |
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