Dieta, raza y civilización en el pensamiento ilustrado de la Nueva Granada

During the colonial period there was much debate about the effects of the environment on the humoral constitution of the bodies and the extent to which climate humoral constitution of the bodies and the extent to which climate, food and customs could have and customs could have on the transformation of people's very nature. nature of people. In this context, a racialized humoral !siology was con!gured, combining food and climate.
-and climate - which brought a scientific language to the discourses of human difference between the the discourses of human difference between Spaniards, Creoles and other ethnic groups. ethnic groups. This humoral conception of nourishment was present in the discourses of the the role of the American climate on physical, moral and intellectual capacities. the physical, moral and intellectual capacities of its inhabitants. Although the
Although the climatic discourses of Francisco José de Caldas and other Creoles have been widely widely analyzed, this text aims to delve deeper into their dietary discourses and the role that climate and the role they assigned to food in the con!guration of an incipient racialized national identity. an incipient racialized and geographically hierarchized national identity.