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UNINA9910817802503321 |
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Autore |
Gruzinski Serge |
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Titolo |
The mestizo mind : the intellectual dynamics of colonization and globalization / / Serge Gruzinski ; translated from the French by Deke Dusinberre |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-69740-3 |
1-315-02326-1 |
0-415-92879-6 |
1-136-69733-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (289 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Mestizaje - Latin America |
Latin America Civilization |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-256) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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