TY - JOUR AU - Riechmann, Thomas PY - 2011/05/17 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Möglichkeitsräume und Sagbarkeitsgrenzen –: Konsum als politisches Motiv in Reiseberichten des 16. Jahrhunderts JF - Comparativ JA - comparativ VL - 21 IS - 3 SE - Articles DO - 10.26014/j.comp.2011.03.02 UR - https://www.comparativ.net/v2/article/view/425 SP - 17-31 AB - <p>Spaces of possibilities and limits of speaking – Consumption as a political motif of travel reports of the 16th century</p><p>In this essay French and Spanish travel reports from the 16th century are used as sources of history of consumption. The travel reports all dealt with a new continent named “America” which was equated with visions of a new society. The article identifies three patterns of interpretation which show different variations of acquirement. The first model is orientated on a Christian prototype of man, the native without needs. The second model depicts the organisation of complex Indian societies in Middle- and South-America. The last model contains an economic founded dream of a cultivated landscape. All models show an intention to verify traditional systems of social life in Europe and are by this means typically “political”.</p> ER -