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The Spanish Arcadia : sheep herding, pastoral discourse, and ethnicity in early modern Spain

Irigoyen-Garcâia, Javier, 1975-, author

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\"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-Garcâia 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-Garcâia 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.\" Publisher's website.

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Subject: 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. / Spain Historiography.
• ISBN: 9781442647275, 1442647272

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
GN585.S7 I64 2014	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE