Introduction: making sense of colonial encounters and new worlds / Daniela Hacke and Paul Musselwhite -- Part I. Cultural encounters -- Touching on communication: visual and textual representations of touch as friendship in early colonial encounters / Celine Carayon -- Mission s…
"An abridged, annotated translation of Girolamo Benzoni's 1572 History of the New World, which describes firsthand encounters between Europeans and Native Americans, New World geography, and indigenous flora and fauna"--Provided by publisher
Decolonizing Indigenous Histories makes a vital contribution to the decolonization of archaeology by recasting colonialism within long-term Indigenous histories. Showcasing case studies from Africa, Australia, Mesoamerica, and North and South America, this edited volume highligh…
Decolonizing Indigenous Histories makes a vital contribution to the decolonization of archaeology by recasting colonialism within long-term Indigenous histories. Showcasing case studies from Africa, Australia, Mesoamerica, and North and South America, this edited volume highligh…
When the Spanish invaded the Inca empire in 1532, the cult of the ancestors was an essential feature of pre-Columbian religion throughout the Andes. The dead influenced politics, protected the living, symbolized the past, and legitimized claims over the land their descendants oc…
When the Spanish invaded the Inca empire in 1532, the cult of the ancestors was an essential feature of pre-Columbian religion throughout the Andes. The dead influenced politics, protected the living, symbolized the past, and legitimized claims over the land their descendants oc…
"What's in a name? As Osumaka Likaka argues in this illuminating study, the names that Congolese villagers gave to European colonizers reveal much about how Africans experienced and reacted to colonialism. The arrival of explorers, missionaries, administrators, and company agent…
What's in a name? As Osumaka Likaka argues in this illuminating study, the names that Congolese villagers gave to European colonizers reveal much about how Africans experienced and reacted to colonialism. The arrival of explorers, missionaries, administra.
A recurring and significant theme in ancient Greek literature is that of returns and returning, marked by the Greek word nostos. This volume offers an interdisciplinary exploration of nostos in ancient Greek culture, shedding light on perceptions of home and displacement, and on…
Alimentary tracts: appetites, aversions, and the postcolonial
by Roy, Parama
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Examines the cultural politics and poetics of appetite and food in post/colonial South Asia.