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The Latin American Ecocultural Reader (Paperback)
Gisela Heffes, Jennifer French; Contributions by Christopher Columbus, Gonzalo Fern andez de Oviedo y Vald es, Fray Bartolome de las Casas, …
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The Latin American Eco-Cultural Reader is a comprehensive anthology
of literary and cultural texts about the natural world. The
selections, drawn from throughout the Spanish-speaking countries
and Brazil, span from the early colonial period to the present.
Editors Jennifer French and Gisela Heffes present work by canonical
figures, including JosE MartI, BartolomE de las Casas, RubEn DarIo,
and Alfonsina Storni, in the context of our current state of
environmental crisis, prompting new interpretations of their
celebrated writings. They also present contemporary work that
illuminates the marginalized environmental cultures of women,
indigenous, and Afro-Latin American populations. Each selection is
introduced with a short essay on the author and the salience of
their work; the selections are arranged into eight parts, each of
which begins with an introductory essay that speaks to the
political, economic and environmental history of the time and
provides interpretative cues for the selections that follow.The
editors also include a general introduction with a concise overview
of the field of ecocriticism as it has developed since the 1990s.
They argue that various strands of environmental thought -
recognizable today as extractivism, eco-feminism, Amerindian
ontologies, and so forth - can be traced back through the centuries
to the earliest colonial period, when Europeans first described the
Americas as an edenic 'New World' and appropriated the bodies of
enslaved Indians and Africans to exploit its natural bounty.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1604 Edition.
1604. This book treats the remarkable things of heaven, of the
elements, metals, plants and beasts which are proper to the East
and West Indies, together with the manners, ceremonies, laws,
governments and wars of the Indians. Due to the age and scarcity of
the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or
difficult to read. Written in Old English.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the
original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as
marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe
this work is culturally important, we have made it available as
part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting
the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions
that are true to the original work.
The "Natural and Moral History of the Indies," the classic work of
New World history originally published by Jose de Acosta in 1590,
is now available in the first new English translation to appear in
several hundred years. A Spanish Jesuit, Acosta produced this
account by drawing on his own observations as a missionary in Peru
and Mexico, as well as from the writings of other missionaries,
naturalists, and soldiers who explored the region during the
sixteenth century. One of the first comprehensive investigations of
the New World, Acosta's study is strikingly broad in scope. He
describes the region's natural resources, flora and fauna, and
terrain. He also writes in detail about the Amerindians and their
religious and political practices.
A significant contribution to Renaissance Europe's thinking about
the New World, Acosta's" Natural and Moral History of the Indies"
reveals an effort to incorporate new information into a Christian,
Renaissance worldview. He attempted to confirm for his European
readers that a "new" continent did indeed exist and that human
beings could and did live in equatorial climates. A keen observer
and prescient thinker, Acosta hypothesized that Latin America's
indigenous peoples migrated to the region from Asia, an idea put
forth more than a century before Europeans learned of the Bering
Strait. Acosta's work established a hierarchical classification of
Amerindian peoples and thus contributed to what today is understood
as the colonial difference in Renaissance European thinking.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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