INTS 407 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Landfall
26 Aug 2016
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The unique nature of the encounter: prior encounters with strange cultures were made gradually with a sporadic history of contact between europeans and the other , european landfall in the caribbean was different. Extreme length of journey (out of contact while at sea) His actions are performed entirely for a world elsewhere : ritual of possession (the formal linguistic act) is apparently directed at the native inhabitants, is really only meaningful with respect to other european countries. Who might in the future choose to dispute spain"s (and. Columbus changes his description: first encounter in 1492. Timid , run away , peaceful : third voyage in 1498. Warlike , nomadic , wild : taking land from an enemy is legitimate, the indians are assimilated to nomadic barbarians, they live outside of civilization with no organization and thus are beasts. Christian imperialism: brings opposites into close conjunction but leaves their relation to one another a mystery.
