Natural and Moral History of the IndiesDuke University Press, 2002 M10 15 - 535 páginas The Natural and Moral History of the Indies, the classic work of New World history originally published by José de Acosta in 1590, is now available in the first new English translation to appear in several hundred years. A Spanish Jesuit, Acosta produced this account by drawing on his own observations as a missionary in Peru and Mexico, as well as from the writings of other missionaries, naturalists, and soldiers who explored the region during the sixteenth century. One of the first comprehensive investigations of the New World, Acosta’s study is strikingly broad in scope. He describes the region’s natural resources, flora and fauna, and terrain. He also writes in detail about the Amerindians and their religious and political practices. A significant contribution to Renaissance Europe's thinking about the New World, Acosta's Natural and Moral History of the Indies reveals an effort to incorporate new information into a Christian, Renaissance worldview. He attempted to confirm for his European readers that a "new" continent did indeed exist and that human beings could and did live in equatorial climates. A keen observer and prescient thinker, Acosta hypothesized that Latin America's indigenous peoples migrated to the region from Asia, an idea put forth more than a century before Europeans learned of the Bering Strait. Acosta's work established a hierarchical classification of Amerindian peoples and thus contributed to what today is understood as the colonial difference in Renaissance European thinking. |
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... Mexicans , used with images and statues 10. Of a strange kind of idolatry that was practiced by the Mexicans 274 269 II . How the devil has tried to copy God in methods of sacrifices and of religion and sacraments 275 12. Of the temples ...
... Mexicans , used with images and statues 10. Of a strange kind of idolatry that was practiced by the Mexicans 274 269 II . How the devil has tried to copy God in methods of sacrifices and of religion and sacraments 275 12. Of the temples ...
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... Mexicans 319 30. Of the merchants ' festival performed by the Cholulans 31. The benefit that can be drawn from an account of the Indians ' superstitions 327 BOOK VI 1. How the opinion of those who believe that the Indians lack ...
... Mexicans 319 30. Of the merchants ' festival performed by the Cholulans 31. The benefit that can be drawn from an account of the Indians ' superstitions 327 BOOK VI 1. How the opinion of those who believe that the Indians lack ...
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... Mexicans had 368 25. Of the different ranks and orders of the Mexicans 370 26. Of the Mexicans ' way of fighting and the military orders that they had 371 27. Of the Mexicans ' great care and diligence in bringing up their youth 372 28 ...
... Mexicans had 368 25. Of the different ranks and orders of the Mexicans 370 26. Of the Mexicans ' way of fighting and the military orders that they had 371 27. Of the Mexicans ' great care and diligence in bringing up their youth 372 28 ...
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... Mexicans 394 9. Of the strange tribute paid by the Mexicans to the Azcapotzalcans 397 10. Of the second king and what befell him during his reign 399 II . Of the third king , Chimalpopoca , and of his cruel death and the cause of the ...
... Mexicans 394 9. Of the strange tribute paid by the Mexicans to the Azcapotzalcans 397 10. Of the second king and what befell him during his reign 399 II . Of the third king , Chimalpopoca , and of his cruel death and the cause of the ...
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... for the reader not familiar with the text . In the particular case of Acosta's Historia this task has already been accomplished , in a stellar way , by Mexican historian and philosopher Edmundo O'Gorman in his prologue INTRODUCTION xxi.
... for the reader not familiar with the text . In the particular case of Acosta's Historia this task has already been accomplished , in a stellar way , by Mexican historian and philosopher Edmundo O'Gorman in his prologue INTRODUCTION xxi.
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