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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Eduardo Batalha Viveiros de Castro |
ISBN: | 9780984201013 0984201017 |
OCLC Number: | 824118410 |
Language Note: | Translated from the Portuguese |
Notes: | Originaltitel: Mármore e a murta Translation of: O mármore e a murta : sobre a inconstância da alma selvagem, originally published in v. 35 (1992) of Revista de antropologia. This translation was prepared based on a version revised by the author in 2010 I. The Problem of Unbelief in the Brazilian 16th Century Culture as a Religious System Of Hell and Glory Division in Paradise On the Hardness of Belief II. How the Tupinambá Lost (the) War Speaking of Time The Old Law The Juice of Memory Recalcitrant Cannibals In Praise of Inconstancy |
Description: | 104 s. ; 18 cm |
Series Title: | Paradigm (Chicago, Ill.), 41 |
Other Titles: | Encounter of Catholics and cannibals in 16th-century Brazil |
Responsibility: | Eduardo Viveiros de Castro ; translated by Gregory Duff Morton |
Abstract:
In the mid-sixteenth century, Jesuit missionaries working in what is now Brazil were struck by what they called the inconstancy of the people they met, the indigenous Tupi-speaking tribes of the Atlantic coast. This title situates the Jesuit missionaries' accounts of the Tupi people in historical perspective.
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- Tupinamba Indians -- Missions.
- Tupinamba Indians -- Religion.
- Tupinamba Indians -- Social life and customs.
- Tupinamba Indians -- Wars.
- Christianity and culture -- Brazil.
- Cannibalism -- Brazil.
- Jesuits -- Missions -- Brazil -- Missions -- Brazil
- Catholic Church -- Missions -- Brazil -- Missions -- Brazil
- Tupinamba (Indiens) -- Missions.
- Tupinamba (Indiens) -- Religion.
- Tupinamba (Indiens) -- Mœurs et coutumes.
- Tupinamba (Indiens) -- Guerres.
- Cannibalisme -- Brésil.
- Cannibalism
- Christianity and culture
- Tupinamba Indians -- Religion
- Tupinamba Indians -- Social life and customs
- Brazil