An Exposition of Jose De Acosta's "Historia Natural Y Moral De Las Indias", 1590: The Emergence of an Anthropological Vision of Colonial Latin America (Latin American Studies)

Translated into many languages soon after publication, it shaped European perceptions of the Americas for centuries. This book initially reconstructs the intellectual context of 16th century Spain and Peru and the historical background of colonization and evangelization in America, offering an intertextual framework for tracing the development of Acosta's ethnographic perspective. The study also focuses on humanism's rhetorical instruments and conceptual systems and how they inform Acosta's analysis of Amerindian nature and humanity.Gregory J. Shepherd is the author of 'An Exposition of Jose De Acosta's "Historia Natural Y Moral De Las Indias", 1590: The Emergence of an Anthropological Vision of Colonial Latin America (Latin American Studies)' with ISBN 9780773471252 and ISBN 0773471251.