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基本説明
Translated by Deke Dusinberre. Looking at the fifteenth century colonization of Latin America, Gruzinski documents the mélange that resulted.
Full Description
Mestizo: a person of mixed blood; specifically, a personof mixed European and American Indianancestry.
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 created a new culture, a new individual, and a phenomenon we now call globalization. Revealing globalization's early origins, Gruzinski then fast forwards to the contemporary mélange seen in the films of Peter Greenaway and Wong Kar-Wai to argue that over 500 years of intermingling has produced the mestizo mind, a state of mixed thinking that we all possess.
A masterful alchemy of history, anthropology, philosophy and visual analysis, The MestizoMind definitively conceptualizes the clash of civilizations in the style of Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak and Anne McClintock.
Contents
Introduction PART I. MELANGE, CHAOS, WESTERNIZATION 1. Amazons 2. Melange and Mestizo 3. The Shock of Conquest 4. Westernization PART II. MESTIZO IMAGERY 5. The Lady Centaur and the Monkey 6. Mexican Ovid 7. The Invasion of Grotesques, or, Moving Images 8. The Language of Grotesques and Glyphs PART III. MESTIZO CREATMTY 9. Wolf, Rain, and Rainbow 10. Crossing the Sea 11. Colonizing Heaven 12. Sibylline Grotto, Conclusion: Happy Together