Transnational perspectives on the conquest and colonization of Latin America Ranging geographically from Tierra del Fuego to California and the Caribbean and historically from early European sightings and the utopian projects of would be colonizers to the present day cultural politics of migrant communities and international relations this volume presents a rich variety of case studies and scholarly perspectives on the interplay of diverse cultures in the Americas since the European conquest. Subjects covered include documentary and archaeological evidence of cultural interaction the collection of native artifacts and the role of museums in the interpretation of indigenous traditions the cultural impact of Christian missions and the representation of indigenous cultures in writings addressed to European readers the development of Latin American artistic traditions and the incorporation of motifs from European classical antiquity into modern popular culture the contribution of Afro descendants to the cultural mix of Latin America and the erasure of the Hispanic heritage from cultural perceptions of California since the 19th century. By offering accessible and well illustrated accounts of a wide range of particular cases the volume aims to stimulate thinking about historical and methodological issues which can be exploited in a teaching context as well as in the furtherance of research projects in a comparative and transnational framework Putting Tierra del Fuego on the map Bas Gooijer Sir Balthazar Gerbiers utopian dreams of the New World 1649 1660 Jane Campbell The impossible dialogue between Plato and Epicurus : José Manuel Peramáss Commentarius on the Paraguayan missions Fabrizio Melai Translating Franciscan poverty in colonial Latin America Julia McClure Italian scientists in South America : Argentina as constructed by Paolo Mantegazza and Pellegrino Strobel Diego Stefanelli Imagined indigeneity in Alfred Döblins novel Amazonas (1937 38) David Midgley Challenging colonial discourses : the Spanish imperial borderland in Chile from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century Beatriz Marín Aguilera with Leonor Adán and Simón Urbina Native artists and the defense of territory in sixteenth century New Spain Ana Pulido Rull A thing of the past : representation material culture and indigeneity in post conquest Meso and Andean South America Stefanie Gänger The nationalization of the Ecuadorian Amazon region in the early twentieth century : the Salesian outpost Chiara Pagnotta Aristotelian politics among the Aztecs : a Nahuatl adaptation of a treatise by Denys the Carthusian David Tavárez The poetics of emulation in a Latin American context : towards a new theoretical framework Joao Cezar de Castro Rocha The Greco Roman as an arena for conflict : classical reception popular poetry and power in northeast Brazil Connie Bloomfield The Indians of Europe in Sierra Morena : reputation emulation and colonization in the Spanish Enlightenment Eduardo Jones Corredera Form and decorations on Qeros and Unku : the impact of Inka and Spanish conquest on material culture in settler colonial states Christine D. Beaule Black space production in Andean societies : how Africans and their descendants shaped Limas San Lázaro neighborhood Leo J. Garofalo Fashioning the other : the foreign as diplomatic currency in the sixteenth century Caribbean and in Europe Joanna Ostapkowicz Imagining the Hispanic past : the de Mexicanization of California 1880 1930 Carrie Gibson The lure of the Andes : Peruvian mountain guides made in Switzerland Angela Sanders The conquest in cultural memory: Peruvian migrants in Europe Leslie Nancy Hernández Nova Our grandmothers looms : Qeqchi weavers museum textiles and the repatriation of lost knowledge Callie Vandewiele Afro Mexico : images of the indeterminate Lucy Foster.