Surveying Mestizaje. Literature & Language Assignment

Surveying Mestizaje
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In other words, the author pushes the reader to observe the mix elements contain in the art works, and architecture. Choose one of the examples the author uses and explain how it helps you to understand the cultural miscegenation that occurred in the New World.
Mixing and fusion of culture among the Europeans and Indians resulted in a unique artworks, architecture and ritual objects in Spanish American/ Latin America between the 16th and 19th centuries. In the 21st century the meaning of mestizaje include those of Africans in the Americas, but the meaning is fluid and has changed over time. The zemi a beaded object made of local and foreign materials and is one of the earliest artworks, which confirm cross-cultural exchange and heritage over time. The early-sixteenth-century zemi, which is a god or deified ancestor, shows cultural exchanges between the Europeans, Tainos and Africans who formed part of a multiracial group.
The zemi is an indigenous object common before the arrival of the Spaniards among Tainos in the Caribbean region and ...