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The Mestizo Mind : The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization, Hardback Book

The Mestizo Mind : The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization Hardback

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Mestizo: a person of mixed blood; specifically, a personof mixed European and American Indianancestry. Serge Gruzinski, the renowned historian of Latin America, offers a brilliant, original critique of colonization and globalization in The Mestizo Mind.

Looking at the fifteenth-century colonization of Latin America, Gruzinski documents the mélange that resulted: colonized mating with colonizers; Indians joining the Catholic Church and colonial government; and Amerindian visualizations of Jesus and Perseus.

These physical and cultural encounters created a new culture, a new individual, and a phenomenon we now call globalization.

Revealing globalization's early origins, Gruzinski then fast forwards to the contemporary mélange seen in the films of Peter Greenaway and Wong Kar-Wai to argue that over 500 years of intermingling has produced the mestizo mind, a state of mixed thinking that we all possess. A masterful alchemy of history, anthropology, philosophy and visual analysis, The MestizoMind definitively conceptualizes the clash of civilizations in the style of Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak and Anne McClintock.

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