Tulane University 2006-2007 Catalog

Course:

SPAN 609 Indigenous Peoples of the Colonial New World (3)

Prof. Charles. Prerequisite: 400-level sequence. An examination of early colonial writings that memorialized and debated the status of American peoples and cultures. Ethnographic accounts of European and Creole authors are read together with indigenous testimonies, with focus on topics such as: noble savagery, the debates on the 'just' causes for military conquest, European perceptions of indigenous languages and religious practices, and the confrontation between oral tradition and written culture.

 

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