{"id":2552,"date":"2021-08-23T10:16:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T09:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/?p=2552"},"modified":"2022-05-16T15:43:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T14:43:36","slug":"opossum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/cabinet\/naturalia\/opossum\/","title":{"rendered":"OPOSSUM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of the long list of novel creatures featured in early modern descriptions of the New World, the opossum stands out as particularly curious. On the one hand, numerous testimonies point to the opossum\u2019s \u2018composite\u2019 or \u2018chimerical\u2019 appearance, conventionally referring to it as \u2018monstrous\u2019. Thus Spanish explorer Vicente Y\u00e1\u00f1ez Pinz\u00f3n (1462\u2013 1514), whose account is regarded as one of the earliest, refers to it as a \u2018Monster, the foremost part resembling a Fox, the hinder a Monkey, the feet were like a Man\u2019s, with Ears like an Owl\u2019. Of particular interest to the history of the opossum as an object-image of knowledge is the treatise entitled <em>Historia naturae, maxime peregrinae<\/em> by the Spanish Jesuit scholar Juan Eusebio Nieremberg (1595\u20131658). Nieremberg presents and contrasts a number of descriptions of the opossum, which he calls by its Nahuatl name <em>tlaquatzin\/tlacuatzin<\/em>, starting with materials compiled by Francisco Hern\u00e1ndez (1514\u201387). Nieremberg presents a new illustration of the opossum that represents a female tlacuatzin and her offspring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the long list of novel creatures featured in early modern descriptions of the New World, the opossum stands out as particularly curious. On the one hand, numerous testimonies point to the opossum\u2019s \u2018composite\u2019 or \u2018chimerical\u2019 appearance, conventionally referring to it as \u2018monstrous\u2019. Thus Spanish explorer Vicente Y\u00e1\u00f1ez Pinz\u00f3n (1462\u2013 1514), whose account is regarded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[111],"class_list":["post-2552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-naturalia","tag-opossum"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2552"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4049,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2552\/revisions\/4049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flacso.edu.ec\/laglobal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}