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The Inconstancy of the Indian Soul : The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in 16-Century Brazil by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (2011, Trade Paperback)

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
Publication Name
Inconstancy of the Indian Soul : the Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in 16-Century Brazil
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History, Customs & Traditions, Latin America / South America
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
104 Pages

LCCN
2011-912027
Lc Classification Number
F2230.2.T84c3 2011
Reviews
At once an anthropological interpretation of historical encounters between Europeans and 'natives,' a critically reflexive approach to anthropological understandings of 'culture,' 'belief,' and 'identity,' and, perhaps most importantly for scholars working in Amazonia, a highly influential framework through which many ethnographers have come to understand indigenous cosmology and sociality. . . . Viveiros de Castro's book has left an important mark on Americanist scholarship in recent years, and its translation should only extend its influence.
Table of Content
Translation Note I. The Problem of Unbelief in the Brazilian 16th Century Culture as a Religious System Of Hell and Glory Division in Paradise On the Hardness of Belief II. How the Tupinambá Lost (the) War Speaking of Time The Old Law The Juice of Memory Recalcitrant Cannibals In Praise of Inconstancy Acknowledgements
Copyright Date
2011
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
981/.00498383
Dewey Edition
23/Eng/20220906

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