Inconstancy of the Indian Soul The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in 16-Century Brazil

Name: Inconstancy of the Indian Soul The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in 16-Century Brazil
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ISBN: 9780984201013

ISBN-10: 0984201017

ISBN-13: 9780984201013

Edition: 2011

Authors: Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

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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. Though the Indians appeared eager to receive the Gospel, they also had a tendency to forget the missionaries' lessons and "revert" to their natural state of war, cannibalism, and polygamy. This peculiar mixture of acceptance and rejection, compulsion and forgetfulness was incorrectly understood by the priests as a sign of the natives' incapacity to believe in anything durably. In this pamphlet, world-renowned Brazilian anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro situates the Jesuit…

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List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
Publication date: 10/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 104
Size: 7.17" wide x 7.05" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.198