ABSTRACT
Ranging geographically from Tierra del Fuego to California and the Caribbean, and historically from early European sightings and the utopian projects of would-be colonizers to the present-day cultural politics of migrant communities and international relations, this volume presents a rich variety of case studies and scholarly perspectives on the interplay of diverse cultures in the Americas since the European conquest.
Subjects covered include documentary and archaeological evidence of cultural interaction, the collection of native artifacts and the role of museums in the interpretation of indigenous traditions, the cultural impact of Christian missions and the representation of indigenous cultures in writings addressed to European readers, the development of Latin American artistic traditions and the incorporation of motifs from European classical antiquity into modern popular culture, the contribution of Afro-descendants to the cultural mix of Latin America and the erasure of the Hispanic heritage from cultural perceptions of California since the nineteenth century.
By offering accessible and well-illustrated accounts of a wide range of particular cases, the volume aims to stimulate thinking about historical and methodological issues, which can be exploited in a teaching context as well as in the furtherance of research projects in a comparative and transnational framework.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
Speculations
chapter 3|12 pages
The Impossible Dialogue between Plato and Epicurus
part II|2 pages
Constructions
chapter 5|12 pages
Italian Scientists in South America
chapter 7|14 pages
Challenging Colonial Discourses
part III|2 pages
Records of Appropriation
chapter 9|12 pages
A Thing of the Past
chapter 10|13 pages
The Nationalization of the Ecuadorian Amazon Region in the Early Twentieth Century
part IV|2 pages
Adaptations and Conflations
chapter 11|15 pages
Aristotelian Politics among the Aztecs
chapter 12|12 pages
The Poetics of Emulation in a Latin American Context
chapter 13|14 pages
The Graeco-Roman as an Arena for Conflict
chapter 14|13 pages
The ‘Indians of Europe’ in Sierra Morena
part V|2 pages
Buried Histories
chapter 15|13 pages
Form and Decorations on Qeros and Unku
chapter 16|12 pages
Black Space Production in Andean Societies
chapter 17|14 pages
Fashioning the ‘Other’
part VI|2 pages
Legacies of Coloniality