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Author Earle, Rebecca.

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

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (280 pages).
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Series Critical Perspectives on Empire
Critical perspectives on empire.
Contents Cover; The Body of the Conquistador; Critical Perspectives on Empire; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Food and the colonial experience; Colonies, environments and diets; Difference, cultures and bodies; Geographies, chronologies and sources; Structure; 1 Humoralism and the colonial body; Spanish bodies, Indian bodies; Humoral bodies; A brief history of humoralism; Humoralism in Spain; Humoralism in the new world; 'They are delicate and feminine and of weak complexion'; Practical humoralism; Wet nurses; Conclusions.
2 Protecting the European body'I myself would much prefer a piece of bread'; 'Day-old bread, fresh meat and aged wine keep your health fine'3; 'The bestial foods of those who lack bread and wine'; 'The essential thing is to ensure that there is wheat and wine'; 'Wheat and wine will grow very well in this land'; Naked land; 3 Providential fertility; Climate and the creole; 'In what other land?'; Terrestrial paradise; Providential discovery; 'You will not suffer the hunger and pestilence of Spain'; New drugs from a new world; Conclusions; 4 'Maize, which is their wheat'
'Bestial food for savage people'Cannibalism; 'It has a marvellous flavour'31; 'A little of this fruit suffices'; 'The bread of the Indians'; Bread or not bread; Men or not men; 5 'You will become like them if you eat their food'; Planting the faith; A European diet for Indians; Indians die on a European diet; Dream of Hispanicisation; Two republics; Conclusions; 6 Mutable bodies in Spain and the Indies; The cradle of race?; Souls and bodies; The curse of Ham; Amerindians and the sons of Ham; Intrinsic qualities; Alien bodies in Europe; Conclusions; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.
Summary This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation in Spanish America and the bodily experience of eating.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Latin America -- Colonization -- Social aspects.
Latin America.
Colonization.
Social aspects.
Spain -- Colonies -- America -- History.
Spain.
Colonies.
America.
History.
Spaniards -- Latin America -- Attitudes -- History.
Spaniards.
Latin America -- Race relations -- History.
Race relations.
Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Latin America -- History.
Imperialism -- Social aspects.
Imperialism.
Human body -- Social aspects -- Latin America -- History.
Human body -- Social aspects.
Food habits -- Latin America -- History.
Food habits.
Food -- Latin America -- Psychological aspects -- History.
Food.
Psychological aspects.
Ingestion -- Latin America -- Psychological aspects -- History.
Ingestion.
Latin America -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Earle, Rebecca. Body of the Conquistador : Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492-1700. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2012 9781107003422
ISBN 9781139421652
1139421654
9780511763359 (electronic book)
0511763352 (electronic book)
9781139423694
113942369X
9781139419604
1139419609
9781107003422
1107003423
Standard No. 9786613659828