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Valeria López Fadul

is an Assistant Professor of History and Latin American Studies at Wesleyan University. She studies the intellectual and cultural history of colonial Latin America and early modern Spain, with a focus on the philosophy of language and the history of science.
A Cacique By Any Other Name
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A Cacique By Any Other Name

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… Or, Etymologies in Translation, from the Caribbean to London A guest post by Valeria López Fadul The word “cacique”—a leader or lord among the people of the Caribbean islands—first appeared in an English book in 1555.1 Richard Eden’s translation…