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838600
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Mármore e a murta.English
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| Main Entry
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Castro, Eduardo Batalha Viveiros de.
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| Title & Author
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The inconstancy of the Indian soul : : the encounter of Catholics and cannibals in 16th-century Brazil /\ Eduardo Viveiros de Castro ; translated by Gregory Duff Morton.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: Prickly Paradigm Press :: Distributed by the University of Chicago Press,, ©2011.
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| Series Statement
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Paradigm ;; 41
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| Page. NO
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104 pages ;; 18 cm.
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| ISBN
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0984201017
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: 9780984201013
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| Notes
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Translation of: O mármore e a murta : sobre a inconstância da alma selvagem, originally published in v. 35 (1992) of Revista de antropologia. This translation was prepared based on a version revised by the author in 2010.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Bibliographical references available online at the publisher's Web site.
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| Contents
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The problem of unbelief in the Brazilian 16th century -- How the Tupinambá lost (the) war.
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| Abstract
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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. --
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Catholic Church-- Missions-- Brazil.
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Jesuits-- Missions-- Brazil.
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Catholic Church.
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Jesuits.
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Cannibalism-- Brazil.
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Christianity and culture-- Brazil.
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Tupinamba Indians-- Missions.
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Tupinamba Indians-- Religion.
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Tupinamba Indians-- Social life and customs.
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Tupinamba Indians-- Wars.
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Cannibalism.
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Christianity and culture.
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Kannibalismus.
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Katholizismus.
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Kulturkontakt.
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Missions.
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Religionsethnologie.
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Tupí.
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Tupinamba Indians-- Religion.
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Tupinamba Indians-- Social life and customs.
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Brasilien.
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Brazil.
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| Dewey Classification
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299.8
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| LC Classification
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F2520.1.T94C3713 2011
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| Parallel Title
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Encounter of Catholics and cannibals in 16th-century Brazil
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