Check Lewis Hanke on the controversy between Sepulveda and De Las Casas. In
the original 1500s documents they argue whether the American indigenous
people had soul or if they could be consider humans at all.
> From: newidder <N.E.Widder@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:27:42 +0000
> To: deleuze-guattari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Secondary literature for Todorov/post-colonial studies
>
> I am currently putting together the reading list for a course I am teaching
> next semester on liberlism, communitarianism and the politics of otherness.
> The course will include Tvetan Todorov's The Conquest of America. As there is
> basically no secondary literature on this book itself (unless someone knows of
> something, in which case please let me know), I was hoping to get some
> suggestions for more general literature in post-colonial studies that could go
> along with this study of how the Spaniards encountered a strange land with
> strange pagans who did not fit into their established categories and so ended
> up exterminating them (as one does with people who don't fit into your
> established categories).
>
> I realize Todorov's book isn't always thought of very highly in the field of
> post-colonial studies, but I, for one, like the book and would like to find
> some other literature to go with it.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Nathan
>
> Dr. Nathan Widder
> Lecturer in Political Theory
> University of Exeter
> Exeter EX4 4RJ
> United Kingdom
> Tel: +44 (0)1392 263 183
> Fax: +44 (0)1392 263 305
> http://www.ex.ac.uk/shipss/politics/staff/widder/
>
the original 1500s documents they argue whether the American indigenous
people had soul or if they could be consider humans at all.
> From: newidder <N.E.Widder@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:27:42 +0000
> To: deleuze-guattari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Secondary literature for Todorov/post-colonial studies
>
> I am currently putting together the reading list for a course I am teaching
> next semester on liberlism, communitarianism and the politics of otherness.
> The course will include Tvetan Todorov's The Conquest of America. As there is
> basically no secondary literature on this book itself (unless someone knows of
> something, in which case please let me know), I was hoping to get some
> suggestions for more general literature in post-colonial studies that could go
> along with this study of how the Spaniards encountered a strange land with
> strange pagans who did not fit into their established categories and so ended
> up exterminating them (as one does with people who don't fit into your
> established categories).
>
> I realize Todorov's book isn't always thought of very highly in the field of
> post-colonial studies, but I, for one, like the book and would like to find
> some other literature to go with it.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Nathan
>
> Dr. Nathan Widder
> Lecturer in Political Theory
> University of Exeter
> Exeter EX4 4RJ
> United Kingdom
> Tel: +44 (0)1392 263 183
> Fax: +44 (0)1392 263 305
> http://www.ex.ac.uk/shipss/politics/staff/widder/
>