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Mobilizing and Negotiating Meanings: Studies in the Dynamics of Colonial-Imperial Transformations in Art, Science, Law, Historiography, and Identities in the Ibero-American World, 1500–1800

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Sara Castro-Klarén
Sara Castro-Klarén*
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Johns Hopkins University
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , 2010 , pp. 213 - 228
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References

1. Edmundo O'Gorman, La invención de América (Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1958).

2. Anthony Grafton, with April Shelford and Nanci Siraisi, New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992), 5.

3. Walter D. Mignolo, The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995), xi.

4. Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (New York: Random House, 1971), xv. Foucault cites Borges's essay “El idioma analítico de John Wilkins” (1942), as republished in Otras inquisiciones (Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1952).

5. Foucault, Order of Things, xv.

6. In the latter assertion, Rivero-Ayala follows the analysis of David A. Brading.

7. David Damrosch, How to Read World Literature (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2009).

8. Popul Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings, trans. and ed. Dennis Tedlock (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985), 64.