عنوان

The inconstancy of the Indian soul :

(Number (ISBN

0984201017

(Number (ISBN

9780984201013

Title Proper

The inconstancy of the Indian soul :

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[Book]

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the encounter of Catholics and cannibals in 16th-century Brazil /

First Statement of Responsibility

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro ; translated by Gregory Duff Morton.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Chicago :

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Distributed by the University of Chicago Press,

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©2011.

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104 pages ;

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18 cm.

Series Title

Paradigm ;

Volume Designation

41

Text of Note

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.

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Bibliographical references available online at the publisher's Web site.

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The problem of unbelief in the Brazilian 16th century -- How the Tupinambá lost (the) war.

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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 missionaries' accounts of the Tupi people in historical perspective, and in the process draws out some startling and insightful implications of their perceived inconstancy in relation to anthropological debates on culture and religion. --

General Material Designation

Mármore e a murta.

Language (when part of a heading)

English

Parallel Title

Encounter of Catholics and cannibals in 16th-century Brazil

Catholic Church-- Missions-- Brazil.

Jesuits-- Missions-- Brazil.

Catholic Church.

Jesuits.

Cannibalism-- Brazil.

Christianity and culture-- Brazil.

Tupinamba Indians-- Missions.

Tupinamba Indians-- Religion.

Tupinamba Indians-- Social life and customs.

Tupinamba Indians-- Wars.

Cannibalism.

Christianity and culture.

Kannibalismus.

Katholizismus.

Kulturkontakt.

Missions.

Religionsethnologie.

Tupí.

Tupinamba Indians-- Religion.

Tupinamba Indians-- Social life and customs.

Brasilien.

Brazil.

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Castro, Eduardo Batalha Viveiros de.

Date of Transaction

20200822145009.0

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