Mestizo: a person of mixed blood; specifically; a person of mixed European and American Indian ancestry.Serge Gruzinski; the renowned historian of Latin America; offers a brilliant; original critique of colonization and globalization in The Mestizo Mind. Looking at the fifteenth-century colonization of Latin America; Gruzinski documents the mélange that resulted: colonized mating with colonizers; Indians joining the Catholic Church and colonial government; and Amerindian visualizations of Jesus and Perseus. These physical and cultural encounters created a new culture; a new individual; and a phenomenon we now call globalization. Revealing globalization's early origins; Gruzinski then fast forwards to the contemporary mélange seen in the films of Peter Greenaway and Wong Kar-Wai to argue that over 500 years of intermingling has produced the mestizo mind; a state of mixed thinking that we all possess.A masterful alchemy of history; anthropology; philosophy and visual analysis; The Mestizo Mind definitively conceptualizes the clash of civilizations in the style of Homi Bhabha; Gayatri Spivak and Anne McClintock.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Beautiful read...By CustomerBeautiful recollection of fellow personalities the Great Shaykh Ibn 'Arabi met during his time in Andalusia.
