Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
Introduction by Jerry M. Williams and Robert E. Lewis
Part I. Cultural Spaces
1. The Earliest European Views of the New World Natives by Angel Delgado-Gomez
2. The Cannibal Law of 1503 by Michael Palencia-Roth
3. Writing and Evangelization in Sixteenth-Century Mexico by Jose Rabasa
4. Early English Transfer and Invention of the Black in New Spain by Carolyn Prager
Part II. Mediating Political Discourse
5. Taking Possession and Reading Texts: Establishing the Authority of Overseas Empires by Patricia Seed
6. The Counter-Discourse of Bartolome de Las Casas by Stephanie Merrim
7. Empowerment Through the Writing of History: Bartolome de Las Casas's Representation of the Other(s) by Santa Arias
Part III. Decoding the New World
8. The Representation of New World Phenomena: Visual Epistemology and Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo's Illustrations by Kathleen A. Myers
9. The Cross and the Gourd: The Appropriation of Ritual Signs in the Relaciones of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and Fray Marcos de Niza by Maureen Ahern
Part IV. The Seductive Power of Science
10. American Discoveries Noted on the Planisphere of Sancho Gutierrez by Harry Kelsey
11. Ptolemy's 'Geography' and the New World by Oswald A. W. Dilke and Margaret S. Dilke
12. English Motifs in Mexican Books: A Case of Sixteenth-Century Information Transfer by Antonio Rodriguez-Buckingham
Index