Body of the Conquistador - Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492-1700

Informationen zum Autor Rebecca Earle is Professor of History at the University of Warwick. Her previous publications include The Return of the Native: Indians and Mythmaking in Spanish America, 1810-1930 (2008). Klappentext This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation in Spanish America and the bodily experience of eating. Zusammenfassung Could European bodies thrive in the Indies? Would Indians turn into Spaniards if they ate Spanish food? This fascinating history of food! colonisation and race shows that attitudes about food were fundamental to European colonialism and understandings of physical difference in the Age of Discovery. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: food and the colonial experience; 1. Humoralism and the colonial body; 2. Protecting the European body; 3. Providential fertility; 4. Maize, which is their wheat; 5. You will become the same if you eat their food; 6. Mutable bodies in Spain and the Indies; Epilogue; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Earle, Rebecca (University of Warwick) Earle, Earle Rebecca
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.04.2012
• EAN: 9781107003422
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00342-2
• No. of pages: 278
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Südamerika, HISTORY / Latin America / South America