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Book The True History of His Captivity  1557

Download or read book The True History of His Captivity 1557 written by Hans Staden and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part of the book is a straightforward account of the author's personal experiences. The second part is a detailed treatise on the customs of the Tupinambà, their polity, trade, religion, manufactures and warlike undertakings.

Book Hans Staden

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  • Author : Hans Staden
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1929
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Hans Staden written by Hans Staden and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The True History of His Captivity 1557

Download or read book The True History of His Captivity 1557 written by Hans Staden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Broadway Travellers contains few more exciting stories than that of Staden.' Sunday Times 'The present translation of his adventures among the Brazilian cannibals, with which the gruesome original woodcuts are included, now make Staden's story available to a larger public...'New Statesman The first part of the book is a straightforward account of the author's personal experiences. The second part is a detailed treatise on the customs of the Tupinambá, their polity, trade, religion, manufactures and warlike undertakings, and of the flora and fauna of the country. In-depth information is given on rites and ceremonies (those on cannibalism are not for the faint-hearted reader), government and laws and religious observances. Facsimiles of woodcuts.

Book Hans Staden s True History

Download or read book Hans Staden s True History written by Hans Staden and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-16 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1550 the German adventurer Hans Staden was serving as a gunner in a Portuguese fort on the Brazilian coast. While out hunting, he was captured by the Tupinambá, an indigenous people who had a reputation for engaging in ritual cannibalism and who, as allies of the French, were hostile to the Portuguese. Staden’s True History, first published in Germany in 1557, tells the story of his nine months among the Tupi Indians. It is a dramatic first-person account of his capture, captivity, and eventual escape. Staden’s narrative is a foundational text in the history and European “discovery” of Brazil, the earliest European account of the Tupi Indians, and a touchstone in the debates on cannibalism. Yet the last English-language edition of Staden’s True History was published in 1929. This new critical edition features a new translation from the sixteenth-century German along with annotations and an extensive introduction. It restores to the text the fifty-six woodcut illustrations of Staden’s adventures and final escape that appeared in the original 1557 edition. In the introduction, Neil L. Whitehead discusses the circumstances surrounding the production of Staden’s narrative and its ethnological significance, paying particular attention to contemporary debates about cannibalism. Whitehead illuminates the value of Staden’s True History as an eyewitness account of Tupi society on the eve before its collapse, of ritual war and sacrifice among Native peoples, and of colonial rivalries in the region of Rio de Janeiro. He chronicles the history of the various editions of Staden’s narrative and their reception from 1557 until the present. Staden’s work continues to engage a wide range of readers, not least within Brazil, where it has recently been the subject of two films and a graphic novel.

Book The True History of His Captivity  1557  Tr  and Ed  by Malcolm Letts  Etc

Download or read book The True History of His Captivity 1557 Tr and Ed by Malcolm Letts Etc written by Hans Staden and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hans Staden  The True Story of His Captivity 1557

Download or read book Hans Staden The True Story of His Captivity 1557 written by Hans Staden and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Book Hans Staden  the True Story of His Captivity  1557

Download or read book Hans Staden the True Story of His Captivity 1557 written by Hans Staden and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hans Staden  the True History of His Captivity  1557  Translated and Edited by Malcolm Letts  with an Introduction and Notes

Download or read book Hans Staden the True History of His Captivity 1557 Translated and Edited by Malcolm Letts with an Introduction and Notes written by Johann von STADEN (Voyager.) and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hans Staden  the True History of His Captivity

Download or read book Hans Staden the True History of His Captivity written by Hans Staden and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Man Eating Myth

Download or read book The Man Eating Myth written by William Arens and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1980-09-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and well-researched look into what we really know about cannibalism.

Book The Return of Hans Staden

Download or read book The Return of Hans Staden written by Eve M. Duffy and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Staden’s sixteenth-century account of shipwreck and captivity by the Tupinambá Indians of Brazil was an early modern bestseller. This retelling of the German sailor’s eyewitness account known as the True History shows both why it was so popular at the time and why it remains an important tool for understanding the opening of the Atlantic world. Eve M. Duffy and Alida C. Metcalf carefully reconstruct Staden’s life as a German soldier, his two expeditions to the Americas, and his subsequent shipwreck, captivity, brush with cannibalism, escape, and return. The authors explore how these events and experiences were recreated in the text and images of the True History. Focusing on Staden’s multiple roles as a go-between, Duffy and Metcalf address many of the issues that emerge when cultures come into contact and conflict. An artful and accessible interpretation, The Return of Hans Staden takes a text best known for its sensational tale of cannibalism and shows how it can be reinterpreted as a window into the precariousness of lives on both sides of early modern encounters, when such issues as truth and lying, violence, religious belief, and cultural difference were key to the formation of the Atlantic world.

Book My Genes Made Me Do It

Download or read book My Genes Made Me Do It written by N. Whitehead and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors explore the question of whether our sexual orientation is inherited or if it is a product of our upbringing and/or environment. Many people think gays are born that way, and few understand enough about genetics and human biology to mount a thorough defense of the facts. My Genes Made Me Do It explains the role of genetics and biology in human behavior with a particular, though not exclusive, emphasis on homosexuality. Conventional scientific method and research findings are brought together in a fresh, original way to argue that no human behaviors are biologically determined.

Book The Power of the Dispersed

Download or read book The Power of the Dispersed written by Cornel Zwierlein and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present case studies on early modern travelers, dispersed often by unintended consequences of war, curiosity, economic or political reasons in the Mediterranean, the Americas and Japan, ask for what ́power(s) ́ and agency they still had, perhaps counterintuitively, abroad.

Book Utopia

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  • Author : Thomas More
  • Publisher : e-artnow
  • Release : 2019-04-08
  • ISBN : 8027303583
  • Pages : 105 pages

Download or read book Utopia written by Thomas More and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.

Book Blacks of the Land

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  • Author : John M. Monteiro
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2018-10-25
  • ISBN : 1108663257
  • Pages : 293 pages

Download or read book Blacks of the Land written by John M. Monteiro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in Portuguese in 1994 as Negros da Terra, this field-defining work by the late historian John M. Monteiro has been translated into English by Professors Barbara Weinstein and James Woodard. Monteiro's work established ethnohistory as a field in colonial Brazilian studies and made indigenous history a vital part of how scholars understand Brazil's colonial past. Drawing on over two dozen collections on both sides of the Atlantic, Monteiro rescued Indians from invisibility, documenting their role as both objects and actors in Brazil's colonial past and, most importantly, providing the first history of Indian slavery in Brazil. Monteiro demonstrates how Indian enslavement, not exploration or the search for mineral wealth, was the driving force behind expansion out of São Paulo and through the South American backcountry. This book makes a groundbreaking contribution not only to Latin American history, but to the history of indigenous slavery in the Americas generally.

Book Five Years to Freedom

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  • Author : James N. Rowe
  • Publisher : Presidio Press
  • Release : 2011-03-09
  • ISBN : 0307781690
  • Pages : 478 pages

Download or read book Five Years to Freedom written by James N. Rowe and published by Presidio Press. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Green Beret Lieutenant James N. Rowe was captured in 1963 in Vietnam, his life became more than a matter of staying alive. In a Vietcong POW camp, Rowe endured beri-beri, dysentery, and tropical fungus diseases. He suffered grueling psychological and physical torment. He experienced the loneliness and frustration of watching his friends die. And he struggled every day to maintain faith in himself as a soldier and in his country as it appeared to be turning against him. His survival is testimony to the disciplined human spirit. His story is gripping.

Book Early Modern Eyes

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  • Author : Walter Simon Melion
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9004179747
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Early Modern Eyes written by Walter Simon Melion and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on optic theory, ethnography, and the visual cultures of Christianity, this volume explores various discourses of vision in early modern Europe and the colonial Americas.