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The Inconstancy of the Indian Soul

The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in Sixteenth-century Brazil

  • Paperback
  • 108 pages
  • Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC
  • 11.7 x 18.1 x 0.7 cm

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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. In the process he draws out some startling and insightful implications of their perceived inconstancy in relation to anthropological debates on culture and religion.
The Inconstancy of the Indian Soul and What On Earth Am I Here For? Booklet
What On Earth Am I Here For? BookletThe Inconstancy of the Indian Soul
  • Author

    Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC

  • Published

    October 2011

  • Weight

    96g

  • Page Count

    108

  • Dimensions

    11.7 x 18.1 x 0.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780984201013

  • ISBN-10

    0984201017

  • Eden Code

    4027398

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