Employing a cross-cultural perspective, this course explores the historical process as being a dialogue between the cultures of the indigenous peoples of Latin America, Europeans, and Africans. Questions we will raise in this class deal with identity, indigeneity, concepts of social ordering, religion, disease, gender, and the struggle for autonomy in regions of the western hemisphere. Students will read a wide range of sources that incorporate voices from historical persons in order to understand the dynamics of dominance, resistance, and syncretism on multiple levels over the period of early modern interactions in Latin America.

Elective