Book contents
- The Body of the Conquistador
- Series page
- The Body of the Conquistador
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- 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 like them if you eat their food’
- 6 Mutable bodies in Spain and the Indies
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- The Body of the Conquistador
- Series page
- The Body of the Conquistador
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- 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 like them if you eat their food’
- 6 Mutable bodies in Spain and the Indies
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Body of the ConquistadorFood, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492–1700Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012