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The body of the conquistador : food, race and the colonial experience in Spanish America, 1492-1700 /

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 reconceptualizes the role of European colonial expansion in shaping the emergence of ideas of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Earle, Rebecca
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Series:Critical perspectives on empire.
Subjects:
Latin America > Colonization > Social aspects.
Spain > Colonies > America > History.
Spaniards > Latin America > Attitudes > History.
Latin America > Race relations > History.
Imperialism > Social aspects > Latin America > History.
Human body > Social aspects > Latin America > History.
Food habits > Latin America > History.
Food > Latin America > Psychological aspects > History.
Ingestion > Latin America > Psychological aspects > History.
Latin America > Social conditions.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Food and the colonial experience
  • 1. Humoralism and the colonial body
  • 2. Protecting the European body
  • 3. Providential fertility
  • 4. Maize, which is their wheat
  • 5. You will become the same if you eat their food
  • 6. Mutable bodies in Spain and the Indies
  • Epilogue.