The Mestizo Mind: The Intellectual Dynamics of Colonization and Globalization

The Mestizo Mind is an entrancing investigation of colonization and globalization. Looking at the fifteenth-century colonization of Latin America, Serge Gruzinski documents the melange that resulted: colonized mating with colonizers; Indians joining the Catholic Church and colonial government; and Amerindian visualizations of Jesus and Perseus. These encounters yielded a new culture, a new individual, a new phenomenon called globalization, and 500 years later, the mestizo mind, a universal state of multicultural thinking. A masterful alchemy of history, anthropology, philosophy, and visual analysis, The Mestizo Mind offers an uncommon and rewarding exploration of the connection between the individual and globalization. Book jacket.

Serge Gruzinski lectures at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and is research director of EHESS's Empire/Society/Nations research center Deke Dusinberre is a Paris-based translator