Publisher's Synopsis
The book analyses the colonial era in its social diversity, contextualises the historical moment in which it emerged and conceptualises it in terms of its epistemological variables. The colonial difference that appears between them created racialised subjects. Figures such as the good savage are extraordinarily durable and, despite constantly changing temporal and spatial contexts, can be activated to the present day. The questions that colonial authorities explored as part of the imagination of society begin by asking who the "Indians" were and how they could ultimately be integrated. From multidisciplinary perspectives, the contributions present case studies for a new understanding of the colonial era, also with a view to the present.
