ELA 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas, Latin American Culture, Atacama Desert

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Latin American Studies
• Course: ELA 1102
• Professor: Jorge Carlos Guerrero

Document Summary

Naming: creates identities and commonalities: source of inspiration: a) described the country b) religious origin, north america (mexicans do not take kindly to being called south and central. The name of the continent has often been a contentious issue. Indio : some have tried to promote other names like indo-america or amerindia. Hispanoamerica or spanish america: another common name but this excludes brazil and other countries in the. Caribbean: area colonized by spain between the xv xviii centuries, after independence in the xix century, the term spanish america became increasingly less common. The term encompasses the colonial origins of brazil and spanish america. Portugal and spain are in the iberian peninsula. Brazil: colonized by portugal and where portuguese is the national language, bigger than the whole of europe, from ireland to the russian federation. Term coined in the late 1850s to define the part of the continent that was not predominantly anglo-saxon.