RHETOR 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Metonymy, Ethnography, Florentine Codex

• School: Berkeley
• Department: Rhetoric
• Course: RHETOR 151
• Professor: Aaron Michael Wintroub

Document Summary

Can you enslave your citizens (after reading requirement?) Spanish having kids with indians inferior to the spanish. Geography - even if you were white, if you are born in the new world, you are. Response to the treatment of the people. The encomienda furthered that - we can teach the indians through this. What is the meaning of conquest? system. Black legend - what was it and how was it used. Need to love and persuade, to teach. You can close read montaigne and lery as well as reference the movie. For the europeans, the savages eat jesus without even first cooking them. Eucharist is metonymic and not a metaphor - the body of christ. As an ethnographer you need to know the culture that you are writing about. Ideally an ethnographer is bilingual so that you are familiar with the language of the other. You need intelligence to know how to better convert them and decimate their culture.