An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians: A New Edition, with an Introductory Study, Notes, and Appendices by Jos? Juan Arrom by Pan?, Fray Ramon
An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians: A New Edition, with an Introductory Study, Notes, and Appendices by Jos? Juan Arrom by Pan?, Fray Ramon

An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians: A New Edition, with an Introductory Study, Notes, and Appendices by Jos? Juan Arrom

Accompanying Columbus on his second voyage to the New World in 1494 was a young Spanish friar...
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Author: Fray Ramon Pan?
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An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians: A New Edition, with an Introductory Study, Notes, and Appendices by Jos? Juan Arrom by Pan?, Fray Ramon

An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians: A New Edition, with an Introductory Study, Notes, and Appendices by Jos? Juan Arrom

$89.94

An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians: A New Edition, with an Introductory Study, Notes, and Appendices by Jos? Juan Arrom

$89.94
Author: Fray Ramon Pan?
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Accompanying Columbus on his second voyage to the New World in 1494 was a young Spanish friar named Ram?n Pan?. The friar's assignment was to live among the "Indians" whom Columbus had "discovered" on the island of Hispaniola (today the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic), to learn their language, and to write a record of their lives and beliefs. While the culture of these indigenous people-who came to be known as the Ta?no-is now extinct, the written record completed by Pan? around 1498 has survived. This volume makes Pan?'s landmark Account-the first book written in a European language on American soil-available in an annotated English edition.

Edited by the noted Hispanist Jos? Juan Arrom, Pan?'s report is the only surviving direct source of information about the myths, ceremonies, and lives of the New World inhabitants whom Columbus first encountered. The friar's text contains many linguistic and cultural observations, including descriptions of the Ta?no people's healing rituals and their beliefs about their souls after death. Pan? provides the first known description of the use of the hallucinogen cohoba, and he recounts the use of idols in ritual ceremonies. The names, functions, and attributes of native gods; the mythological origin of the aboriginal people's attitudes toward sex and gender; and their rich stories of creation are described as well.



Author: Fray Ramon Pan?
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 11/15/1999
Pages: 104
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d
ISBN: 9780822323471


Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 06/01/1999 pg. 94

About the Author

Fray Ramon Pan?, a self-described "poor friar of the Order of Saint Jerome," arrived in Hispaniola with Christopher Columbus in 1494 where he spent the next two years living with and recording the lives of its indigenous inhabitants.

Jos? Juan Arrom is Professor Emeritus of Latin American Literature at Yale University and the author of numerous books, including Imaginaci?n del Nuevo Mundo.


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