How languages served as archives of local knowledge and a crucial resource for both the human and natural history of the Americas in the Spanish empire.
In the sixteenth century, the conquest of the Americas exposed Spanish writers to previously unknown peoples and their many languages. The linguistic multiplicity of the new transatlantic empire presented enormous challenges both in terms of governance and religious conversion. Yet it also became a crucial resource for learning about the new territories’ history, both natural and human. In The Cradle of Words, Valeria López Fadul reveals that Spanish scholars, missionaries, and administrators treated the empire’s multiple tongues--both at home and abroad--as rich archives of local knowledge.
These linguistic resources were exploited alongside the Americas’ vast mineral and natural wealth and Indigenous labor. In the process, Spanish scholars made language itself into an object of historical inquiry. Using a wide variety of sources, López Fadul recreates the intellectual networks that crisscrossed Spain’s overseas possessions and informed the imperial court’s scholars. As linguistic information circulated among different kinds of scholars and local experts in Spain and in Spanish America, the history of language came to serve historical, political, and even legal arguments that were not originally linguistic in nature. By relying on varied methods like the collection of words, etymology, and the elaboration of linguistic genealogies, Spanish writers used the history of language to reconstruct the past, gain knowledge of nature, and explain the profound social transformations of their newly broadened world.
Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.
Valeria López Fadul is an Assistant Professor of History and Latin American Studies at Wesleyan University. She is an Assistant Editor at History & Theory.
„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.
EUR 5,75 für den Versand von Vereinigtes Königreich nach USA
Versandziele, Kosten & DauerAnbieter: PBShop.store UK, Fairford, GLOS, Vereinigtes Königreich
HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Artikel-Nr. WJ-9781421450216
Anzahl: 5 verfügbar
Anbieter: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, USA
HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Artikel-Nr. WJ-9781421450216
Anzahl: 5 verfügbar
Anbieter: Devils in the Detail Ltd, Oxford, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: New. Picture Shown is For Illustration Purposes Only, Please See Below For Further DetailsCONDITION ? NEW. Artikel-Nr. 206/BT/560H 0216
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar
Anbieter: Majestic Books, Hounslow, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: New. Artikel-Nr. 394396288
Anzahl: 3 verfügbar
Anbieter: Ria Christie Collections, Uxbridge, Vereinigtes Königreich
Zustand: New. In. Artikel-Nr. ria9781421450216_new
Anzahl: Mehr als 20 verfügbar
Anbieter: Kennys Bookstore, Olney, MD, USA
Zustand: New. Artikel-Nr. V9781421450216
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. Artikel-Nr. 1765325880
Anzahl: 2 verfügbar
Anbieter: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Vereinigtes Königreich
Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 296 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.28 inches. In Stock. Artikel-Nr. x-1421450216
Anzahl: 2 verfügbar
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This work explores the relationship between language and knowledge in the Spanish empire'. Artikel-Nr. 9781421450216
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar