REL 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Original Sin, Smallpox, Thomas Harriot
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Peter martyr, de orbe novo 1530 reports of explorers, tales of wonder. Thomas more, the best state of the commonwealth and the new island of utopia (1516) Promoted right to colonize because inhabitants do not care for the land. Thomas harriot, a brief and true report of the new found land of virginia (1588) Biological exchange: disease (small pox), new foods back to europe (potatos, tomatoes, squash) animals imported (cows, horse, sheep, pigs). Americi vespucci and the new world from waldseemullers new world map, 1507. Natives would work for bene t of conversion. Beards, smelled, hair society came into being. Indians do not separate natural and supernatural world. Europe in political, religious, and spatial turmoil. All of this in play with explorations and colorations of the new world . 1: material and spiritual are part of a kinship network, europeans separate natural and supernatural worlds, europeans wanted to convert others to their beliefs.
