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The mestizo mind : the intellectual dynamics of colonization and globalization = La pensée métisse / Serge Gruzinski ; translated from the French by Deke Dusinberre.
Van Pelt Library F1408.3 .G7813 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gruzinski, Serge.
- Standardized Title:
- Pensée métisse. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Mestizaje.
- Latin America--Civilization.
- Latin America.
- Civilization.
- Mestizaje--Latin America.
- Physical Description:
- 266 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2002.
- Summary:
- The Mestizo Mind is an entrancing investigation of colonization and globalization. Looking at the fifteenth-century colonization of Latin America, Serge Gruzinski documents the melange that resulted: colonized mating with colonizers; Indians joining the Catholic Church and colonial government; and Amerindian visualizations of Jesus and Perseus. These encounters yielded a new culture, a new individual, a new phenomenon called globalization, and 500 years later, the mestizo mind, a universal state of multicultural thinking. A masterful alchemy of history, anthropology, philosophy, and visual analysis, The Mestizo Mind offers an uncommon and rewarding exploration of the connection between the individual and globalization.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-256) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415928788
- 0415928796
- OCLC:
- 49249282
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