| Contents |
The earliest European views of the new world natives / Angel Delgado-Gómez -- The Cannibal Law of 1503 / Michael Palencia-Roth -- Writing and evangelization in sixteenth-century Mexico / José Rabasa -- Early English transfer and invention of the Black in new Spain / Carolyn Prager -- Taking possession and reading texts : establishing the authority of overseas empires / Patricia Seed -- The counter-discourse of Bartolomé de Las Casas / Stephanie Merrim -- Empowerment through the writing of history : Bartolomé de Las Casas's representation of the Other(s) / Santa Arias -- The representation of New World phenomena : visual epistemology and Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo's illustrations / Kathleen A. Myers -- The cross and the gourd : the appropriation of ritual signs in the Relaciones of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and Fray Marcos de Niza / Maureen Ahern -- |
| Contents |
American discoveries noted on the planisphere of Sancho Gutiérrez / Harry Kelsey -- Ptolemy's Geography and the New World / Oswald A.W. Dilke and Margaret S. Dilke -- English motifs in Mexican books : a case of sixteenth-century information transfer / Antonio Rodriguez-Buckingham. |
| Local note | Little-294817--305131000905R |
| Local note | Little-294817--305131000905R |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 92036116 |
| ISBN | 0816511845 (acid-free paper) |
| Other class# |
UA 5.2:E 16 |
