The Inconstancy of the Indian Soul: The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in 16-Century Brazil by Viveiros De Castro, Eduardo
The Inconstancy of the Indian Soul: The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in 16-Century Brazil by Viveiros De Castro, Eduardo

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

In the mid-sixteenth century, Jesuit missionaries working in what is now Brazil were struck by what they...
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The Inconstancy of the Indian Soul: The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in 16-Century Brazil by Viveiros De Castro, Eduardo

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

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The Inconstancy of the Indian Soul: The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in 16-Century Brazil by Viveiros De Castro, Eduardo

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

$30.72
Author: Eduardo Viveiros De Castro
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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.



Author: Eduardo Viveiros De Castro
Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press
Published: 10/01/2011
Pages: 104
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.21lbs
Size: 7.96h x 6.97w x 0.27d
ISBN: 9780984201013

About the Author

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro is a professor at the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.




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