[Un]Muffled Histories

Translating Bodily Practices in the Early Modern Caribbean

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3924846
AutoresPablo F Gómez (autor correspondente)
Ano2022
Volume37
Páginas233-250
Data de publicação2022-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoOsiris (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/719228
OpenAlexW4283396678
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas42

This article focuses on the translating practices of people of African descent and Amerindians in the early modern Caribbean. The history of translation processes in the interconnected constellation of islands and shorelines that constituted the early modern Caribbean provides a framework for thinking about translation that exists outside analytical models based on notions of subalterities, center-periphery, or “contact zones.” Narratives about translation based on imperial and colonial dynamics, or those that depend on the divides between nature and culture Europeans ideated in the seventeenth century, are not apposite for uncovering the history of medical translation in the Caribbean. By stepping outside of these narratives, this article shows how, in the early modern Caribbean, a multitude of people—Caribbean Amerindians, and migrants, mostly kidnapped people from Africa and their descendants—developed rich communal processes of translation around bodily matters

Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Epistemology · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Literature · Multitude · Narrative · Sociology · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy