1991
DOI: 10.2307/4603673
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The Social Politics of Pre-Linnaean Botanical Classification

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“…56 Vegetables, on the other hand, were associated with the lower social orders. 57 Such views were embedded in a culture of belief in which, as William B. Ashworth Jr. observes, "every kind of thing in the cosmos has myriad hidden meanings" and "knowledge consists of an attempt to comprehend as many of these as possible." 58 Thus, when Nicolas bragged to the Odawa of the superiority of the Jesuits to other missionaries and said he would celebrate mass before them in "habits magnifiques d'or et d'argent," or when implicitly or directly he addressed his writings to the noblesse, he was situating himself within a social imaginary that extended even to the interpretation of observed phenomena.…”
Section: Authority Observation Explanationmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…56 Vegetables, on the other hand, were associated with the lower social orders. 57 Such views were embedded in a culture of belief in which, as William B. Ashworth Jr. observes, "every kind of thing in the cosmos has myriad hidden meanings" and "knowledge consists of an attempt to comprehend as many of these as possible." 58 Thus, when Nicolas bragged to the Odawa of the superiority of the Jesuits to other missionaries and said he would celebrate mass before them in "habits magnifiques d'or et d'argent," or when implicitly or directly he addressed his writings to the noblesse, he was situating himself within a social imaginary that extended even to the interpretation of observed phenomena.…”
Section: Authority Observation Explanationmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Not all wild food seems to have been granted the same standing. For instance, only trees and their produce highly valued in Europe are mentioned and praised along with a few tall plants, whose height enabled them to be closer to the sky and God (Grieco 1991). More appropriate in the description of a blessed land, their godliness and familiarity seems to have been insufficient to grant them a place at the table, while local herbs (i.e., Canadian wild ginger, wild leek) and vegetables (i.e., American groundnut, broad-leaved arrowhead) were not even worthy of attention.…”
Section: Sixteenth Centurymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…En esta destinación de productos según la calidad de las personas, se daba que entre los animales más adecuados para los estratos altos estaban las aves y después seguía una gradación de inferioridad a medida que se acercaba al suelo. En el caso de los cultivos, las frutas son de los productos más nobles; seguían en rango las plantas que producen granos (trigo, mijo y otros cereales); luego, seguían los productos que eran más adecuados para las clases inferiores, como las herbáceas, de las que se consume su follaje superior (menta, espinacas y, de las que se comen las raíces, zanahorias, nabos); por último, aquellas que tendrían un sabor acre, que son bulbos (ajos, cebollas y puerros) (Grieco, 2004;1991).…”
Section: La Sociedad Estamentalunclassified
“…De ahí se tiene que los frutales, que eran una parte mínima de la tributación, estaban en la parte más alta la escala. Estas eran, según el principio social de la naturaleza, aptas para el consumo de los grupos más nobles (Grieco, 1991;Montanari, 2008, p.49-50). Ante la ausencia de una nobleza al pie de la letra en Hispanoamérica, la aristocracia local la constituían los encomenderos y los personajes de las clases dominantes, especialmente los oficiales reales, y, entre ellos, virreyes, oidores y gobernadores.…”
Section: ¿Un Mundo Nuevo?unclassified