The Return of Hans Staden : A Go-between in the Atlantic World.
Duffy, Eve M.
The Return of Hans Staden : A Go-between in the Atlantic World. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (211 pages)
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.
9781421404219
Staden, Hans,-approximately 1525-approximately 1576-Travel-Brazil.
Staden, Hans,-approximately 1525-approximately 1576.-Warhaftige Historia und Beschreibung eyner Landtschafft der wilden, nacketen, grimmigen Menschfresser Leuthen in der Newenwelt America gelegen.
Indians of South America-Brazil.
Tupinamba Indians-Social life and customs.
Brazil-Description and travel-Early works to 1800.
Brazil-Early works to 1800.
America-Early works to 1800.
Electronic books.
F2511 .D84 2012
980/.01
The Return of Hans Staden : A Go-between in the Atlantic World. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (211 pages)
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.
9781421404219
Staden, Hans,-approximately 1525-approximately 1576-Travel-Brazil.
Staden, Hans,-approximately 1525-approximately 1576.-Warhaftige Historia und Beschreibung eyner Landtschafft der wilden, nacketen, grimmigen Menschfresser Leuthen in der Newenwelt America gelegen.
Indians of South America-Brazil.
Tupinamba Indians-Social life and customs.
Brazil-Description and travel-Early works to 1800.
Brazil-Early works to 1800.
America-Early works to 1800.
Electronic books.
F2511 .D84 2012
980/.01