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The year 1492 invokes many instances of transition in a variety of ways that intersected, overlapped, and shaped the emergence of Latin America. For the diverse Native inhabitants of the Americas as well as the people of Europe, Africa, and Asia who crossed the Atlantic and Pacific as part of…

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This is an outstanding collective study of the epistemological, sociopolitical, religious, and cultural transitions that have taken place in colonial Latin America as represented in its foundational cultural discourses. The "Introduction" explains the use of "transition" as a conceptual framework within a genealogy associated with transculturation, syncretism, hybridity, contact zones, and in-betweenness.

With the advent of colonialism, Quispe-Agnoli and Brian point out, the local indigenous population resisted but also appropriated new ways of documenting their reality without necessarily losing their traditional forms, as is often believed.

This interdisciplinary book is divided into six parts, focusing respectively on key cultural phenomena…

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