The mestizo mind : the intellectual dynamics of colonization and globalization /

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Author / Creator:Gruzinski, Serge.
Uniform title:Pensée métisse. English
Imprint:New York : Routledge, 2002.
Description:1 online resource (266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12014500
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ISBN:9781136697333
1136697330
9781315023267
1315023261
9781136697401
1136697403
0415928788
9780415928786
0415928796
9780415928793
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-256) and index.
Translated from the French.
Print version record.
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.
Other form:Print version: Gruzinski, Serge. Pensée métisse. English. Mestizo mind 0415928788