01:590:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Promiscuity, Ossification, Cape Bojador

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Latin American Studies
• Course: 01:590:101
• Professor: I.Beltran

Document Summary

Historical and political context for the idea of latin america. Americano vs latin - the significance of the distinction. Latin america consists of: anti-us perspective and anti-french/european perspective. Pros and cons of latin america as a metaphor. Danger of a metaphor: we don"t realize if it changes - it ossifies. Controlling the intervention of empire (french or us) Support for the large through the defense for the small . Latin america has managed to make promiscuity patrimonial. Identity of latin america so rooted in the history of mixing. History always produced in a particular historical context. Historicity 2: that which is said to have happened, not fixed. The power of discovery and the symbolism of columbus. Columbian exchange: massive movement of goods, crops, commodities. Significance: mixing of cultures, something that would later define latin american culture. Columbus brought over crops, food, plants, animals, etc.