What did Spanish think of Native Americans
Rebecca Earle, “‘If You Eat Their Food…’: Diets and Bodies in Early Colonial Spanish America,” American Historical Review, Vol. 115, No. 3 (June, 2010), pp. 688-713
What time, place, people, and topic is Earle discussing? What big questions or issues does she propose to investigate? Why is food a useful way to address those questions or issues?
What did Spanish think of Native Americans? What did they think of Native American foods?
What is “humoralism”? Why was it important to the Spanish, and how did it influence the way the Spanish viewed food, both their own and the Native Americans’?
Earle suggests a deep contradiction in “colonialist ideology.” What is this contradiction, and how did Spanish ideas about food and environments reflect this contradiction?
Is Earle’s article about environmental history?
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