The Spanish Arcadia: Sheep Herding, Pastoral Discourse, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Spain

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: A country of Shepherds

• Race, Religion, and Culture in Early Modern Spain
• The Figure of the Shepherd in Early Modern Spain
• Pastoral Literature and Cultural Supersession

Part One. Sheep Herding and Ethnocentrism in Early Modern Spain

1. 1 Sheep Herding and Discourses on Race
   1. Writing the History of Spanish Sheep
   2. Sheep Herding and Racial Terminology
   3. The Good Shepherd and limpieza de sangre
   4. Representing Laban’s Livestock
2. 2 Rustic Culture and the Invention of the Spanish People
   1. The Adoration of the shepherds
   2. Apparitions to Shepherds
   3. Performing Rustic Culture
   4. Dressing the Shepherd
   5. Rustic Speech as Relic
3. 3 In the Land of Pan: Pastoral Classicism and Historiography
   1. Ancient Place Names and Pastoral Cartographies
   2. Inhabiting the Past with Shepherds
   3. Etymology and Sheep Herding
   4. Paganism and Ethnic Identity
   5. The God Pan and the Name of Spain

Part Two. Contesting Ethnocentrism within the Arcadia

1. 4 The Moor in Arcadia
   1. The Story of El Abencerraje in Montemayor’s La Diana
   2. Reluctant Shepherds: Gaspar Mercader’s El prado de Valencia
   3. The Limits of Cultural Cleansing in Cervantes’ pastoral
2. 5 Imagining the Spanish Arcadia after 1609
   1. Jews and Gypsies in Lope de Vega’s Pastores de Belén
   2. Nostalgia for the Moor: Jacinto Espinel Adorno’s El premio de la constancia
   3. Pastoral Hierarchies: Juan de Barrionuevo y Moya’s Primera parte de la soledad entretenida
3. Conclusion: Pan’s Labyrinth
   1. The Pastoral Habitus: Early Modern to Present
   2. From Blood Purity to Whiteness
   3. Pastoral and Ethnocentrism: Future Directions

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