The Spanish Arcadia
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Annotation The Spanish Arcadia analyzes the figure of the shepherd in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish imaginary, exploring its centrality to the discourses on racial, cultural, and religious identity. Drawing on a wide range of documents, including theological polemics on blood purity, political treatises, manuals on animal husbandry, historiography, paintings, epic poems, and Spanish ballads, Javier Irigoyen-Garca argues that the figure of the shepherd takes on extraordinary importance in the reshaping of early modern Spanish identity. The Spanish Arcadia contextualizes pastoral romances within a broader framework and assesses how they inform other cultural manifestations. In doing so, Irigoyen-Garca provides incisive new ideas about the social and ethnocentric uses of the genre, as well as its interrelation with ideas of race, animal husbandry, and nation building in early modern Spain.
Title |
The Spanish Arcadia : sheep herding, pastoral discourse, and ethnicity in early modern Spain / Javier Irigoyen-García. |
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Edition |
1st ed. |
Publisher |
Toronto, [Ontario] Buffalo, [New York] London, [England] : University of Toronto Press |
Creation Date |
2014 |
Notes |
Issued also in print. Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
Content |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction : a country of shepherds -- Sheep herding and ethnocentrism in early modern Spain -- Contesting ethnocentrism within the arcadia -- Conclusion : Pan's labyrinth -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index. |
Series |
Toronto Iberic |
Extent |
1 online resource (356 p.) |
Language |
English |
Copyright Date |
©2014 |
National Library system number |
997010710604005171 |
MARC RECORDS
Tags
- Shepherds Spain Social life and customs.
- Sheepherding Spain History.
- Pastoral systems Spain History.
- Pastoral literature, Spanish History and criticism.
- Spanish literature Classical period, 1500-1700 History and criticism.
- Shepherds in literature.
- Ethnology Spain History.
- Cultural anthropology
- Ethnography
- Races of man
- Social anthropology
- Spanish pastoral literature
- Herding systems
- Pastoralism
- nne Sheep herding
- Sheepherders
- Spain Historiography.
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