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Do the Indians have a soul? was the question. When Pope Paul III answered affirmatively in his bull Sublimis deus of 1537, he did so by conceiving of the indigenous people’s soul as an empty receptacle, an anima nullius, very much like the terra nullius.

— Boaventura de Sousa Santos

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