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The Return of Hans Staden : A Go-between in the Atlantic World.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (211 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421404219
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Return of Hans StadenDDC classification:
  • 980/.01
LOC classification:
  • F2511 .D84 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Spelling and Citation -- Introduction -- 1 Staden Goes to Sea -- 2 The Lying Captive -- 3 The Traveler Returns -- 4 Staden's Images -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Spelling and Citation -- Introduction -- 1 Staden Goes to Sea -- 2 The Lying Captive -- 3 The Traveler Returns -- 4 Staden's Images -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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