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ISBN: | 9781136697333 1136697330 9781315023267 1315023261 9781136697401 1136697403 0415928788 9780415928786 0415928796 9780415928793
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-256) and index. Translated from the French. Print version record.
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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.
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Other form: | Print version: Gruzinski, Serge. Pensée métisse. English. Mestizo mind 0415928788
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