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Title: The Inconstancy of the Indian Soul – The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in 16–century Brazil Sixteenth–Century Brazil
Condition: New
EAN: 9780984201013
ISBN: 9780984201013
Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 10/01/2011
Item Height: 179mm
Item Length: 116mm
Item Width: 7mm
Item Weight: 102g
Author: Eduardo Viveiros De Cas
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0984201017
Description: 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 missionaries' accounts of the Tupi people in historical perspective. In the process he draws out some startling and insightful implications of their perceived inconstancy in relation to anthropological debates on culture and religion.
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Social Sciences, Society & Culture
Release Year: 2011

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