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The Inconstancy of the Indian Soul: The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in 16-Century Brazil

The Inconstancy of the Indian Soul: The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in 16-Century Brazil

Viveiros De Castro, Eduardo

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Native American HistoryGeneral ChristianitySouth American History

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ISBN10: 0984201017
ISBN13: 9780984201013
Publisher: Prickly Paradigm Pr
Published: Oct 1 2011
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.97 Depth: 7.96
Language: English

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.

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