Being Wild: Bewilderment and Colonization

Culture Shock, Kinship Networks and Book Burning

Atahualpa

Encomienda

Cosmopolitan

Central/Western EuropeColony

Mestizo

Historiography

IDEAS

Portuguese & Brazil

Spanish desire?

Portuguese desire?

Tell me about sugar

farming

Natives or Africans?

Gold (mining)

Sugar (farming)

Brutal, deforestation, labor intensive

Africans, primarily

Today

African vs. Natives

Gendered

Las Casas

Kinship

Spanish/Portugese

New Mexico

How many cities?

Bewilderment: Culture

North America

Population/Geography

Political institutions

Spanish governors?

Sparse/Rocky/Arid

Gendered/Kinship

“La Tienda”, Priests

Spain in the North

Spanish desire?

Conquistadors vs. Priests

“Pueblo”?

Las Casas

Contradiction?

Gold/Land/Souls

Differences/Similarities

Native’s enclaves/dwellings

“tyranny…Spaniards use toward the Indians”

“The labor of one African is more valuable than that of four Indians”

Bewilderment: Language

Cost of Conversion

______ Priests

Loss of culture

Organization

Human trade

Gendered?

Kinship

Catholic

Book burning

Forced unity between groups

Exchange of women

gender to determine events

Networks based on family ties