ISBN:
9783110733211
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (VIII, 324 pages)
Series Statement:
Culture & Conflict 21
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
304.209409034
Keywords:
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
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Ethnoscience History
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Human ecology History 18th century
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Human ecology History 19th century
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Human ecology History 18th century
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Human ecology History 19th century
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Indians of South America First contact with other peoples
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
This volume proposes new ways of understanding the historical semantics of the relationship between humans and nature in South America in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The authors in this volume use the notion of asymmetry to discuss the representations of and forms of knowledge about nature circulating in, and about, colonial and postcolonial South America. They argue that the production of knowledge about the American natural space widened the power gap between the Europeans colonizers and the local population. This gap, therefore, rests on what we call 'asymmetric ecologies': Eurocentric epistemic orders excluded forms of indigenous, mestizo, and Creole knowledge about nature. By looking at literary as well as non-literary sources, such as natural histories, travel narratives, encyclopaedias or medical writing, the essays in this volume trace the origins of new theoretical paradigms (ecocriticism, biopolitics, transarea studies, etc.), and examine the regional cultural, identity, and epistemic conflicts that undercut the Eurocentric narrative of enlightened modernity
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2022)
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In English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110733211
URL:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110733211
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110733211
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