Book ID: CBB533266370

The Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492–1700 (2012)

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Earle, Rebecca (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: 278
Language: English

This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation and the bodily experience of eating. It reveals the importance of food to the colonial project in Spanish America and reconceptualises the role of European colonial expansion in shaping the emergence of ideas of race during the Age of Discovery. Rebecca Earle shows that anxieties about food were fundamental to Spanish understandings of the new environment they inhabited and their interactions with the native populations of the New World. Settlers wondered whether Europeans could eat New World food, whether Indians could eat European food and what would happen to each if they did. By taking seriously their ideas about food we gain a richer understanding of how settlers understood the physical experience of colonialism and of how they thought about one of the central features of the colonial project. The result is simultaneously a history of food, colonialism and race.

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Review Jacqueline Holler (2014) Review of "The Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492–1700". Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Sluyter, Andrew
Cooper, Tracy E.
Guimaraes, Danielle Abdon
González Espitia, Juan Carlos
Cagle, Hubert Glenn, III
Valle, Ivonne del
Concepts
Spain, colonies
Colonialism
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Disease and diseases
Missionaries and missions
Science and religion
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
18th century
15th century
19th century
Early modern
Places
Americas
Spain
Europe
Africa
Atlantic world
South America
Institutions
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
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