The Mestizo Mind: The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization

di Serge Gruzinski (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2002

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.

• Autore: Serge Gruzinski
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Anno: 2002
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 288 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 690 gr.
• EAN: 9780415928786

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