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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Pané, Ramón, d. 1571. Account of the antiquities of the Indians. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607414391 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ramón Pané; José Juan Arrom |
| ISBN: | 0822323478 9780822323471 0822323257 9780822323259 |
| OCLC Number: | 40753038 |
| Description: | xxix, 72 p. : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series Title: | Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução. |
| Other Titles: | Relación acerca de las antigüedades de los indios. |
| Responsibility: | Ramón Pané. |
Abstract:
Offers information about the myths, ceremonies, and lives of the New World inhabitants whom Columbus first encountered. This title contains many linguistic and cultural observations: descriptions of the Indians' healing rituals and their beliefs about their souls after death.
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"[This is a] highly accessible English translation. . . [of] the earliest work dealing exclusively with the indigenous inhabitants of the New World."--Patricia Seed, Rice University
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