David Gowey’s Reviews > The Body of the Conquistador: Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492–1700 > Status Update

“Europeans envisioned a root-and-branch transformation of indigenous culture from one based on the worship of Lord Maize Cob to one built around a god made flesh in a wheaten wafer... [T]he transformations entailed in this vision were profoundly disquieting for colonists, priests and officials alike, for they implied, ultimately, the complete elision of the very differences that separated colonizers and colonized.”