Title: Early images of the Americas : transfer and invention /
Authors: Williams, Jerry M., 1952-; Lewis, Robert Earl, 1946-
Publisher: University of Arizona Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Indians First contact with Europeans; Latin America Civilization; Latin America Description and travel.; America Relations Europe.; Europe Relations America.
Contents: The earliest European views of the new world natives / Angel Delgado-Gómez -- The Cannibal Law of 1503 / Michael Palencia-Roth -- Writing and evangelization in sixteenth-century Mexico / José Rabasa -- Early English transfer and invention of the Black in new Spain / Carolyn Prager -- Taking possession and reading texts : establishing the authority of overseas empires / Patricia Seed -- The counter-discourse of Bartolomé de Las Casas / Stephanie Merrim -- Empowerment through the writing of history : Bartolomé de Las Casas's representation of the Other(s) / Santa Arias -- The representation of New World phenomena : visual epistemology and Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo's illustrations / Kathleen A. Myers -- The cross and the gourd : the appropriation of ritual signs in the Relaciones of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and Fray Marcos de Niza / Maureen Ahern.