THE BREAD OF INDIA: the corn in the reports of Diego Durán and José de Acosta
From the accounts of two religious of Hispanic America, the Dominican Diego Durán and the Jesuit José de Acosta, the article aim to analyze how these two authors sought to understand the indigenous universe that presented itself to the missionary work having as a focus the relation established by...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
2014-06-01
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| Series: | Clio: Revista de Pesquisa Histórica |
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| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/revistaclio/article/view/24477/19780 |
| Summary: | From the accounts of two religious of Hispanic America, the Dominican Diego Durán and
the Jesuit José de Acosta, the article aim to analyze how these two authors sought to understand the
indigenous universe that presented itself to the missionary work having as a focus the relation
established by them between the eating (in which the corn has a fundamental role) and the indigenous
beliefs. The eating and its relations with elements such as the Indigenous and the New World’s nature
is a bias still underexplored by the historiography on the colonial period. Thus, we intend to identify
the representations around the corn and its mediating role in the intellectual incorporation of a natural
and moral universe distinguished from the Europeans |
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| ISSN: | 2525-5649 2525-5649 |