The mestizo mind : the intellectual dynamics of colonization and globalization / / Serge Gruzinski ; translated from the French by Deke Dusinberre

• Autore: Gruzinski Serge
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 980
• Soggetto topico: Mestizaje - Latin America
• Soggetto geografico: Latin America Civilization
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-256) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The mestizo mind
• ISBN: 1-136-69740-3; 1-315-02326-1; 0-415-92879-6; 1-136-69733-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817802503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II