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Of cannibals and kings : primal anthropology in the Americas / Neil L. Whitehead.
- Title
- Of cannibals and kings : primal anthropology in the Americas / Neil L. Whitehead.
- Author
- Whitehead, Neil L.
- Publication
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2011.
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- Description
- xii, 136 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "Translations of the earliest accounts, from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, of the native peoples of the Americas, including Columbus's descriptions of his first voyage. Documents the emergence of a primal anthropology and how Spanish ethnological classifications were integral to colonial discovery, occupation, and conquest"--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Latin American originals ; 7
- Uniform Title
- Latin American originals 7.
- Subject
- Indians > First contact with other peoples > Early works to 1800
- Indians of the West Indies > History > Sources
- Indians > History > Sources
- Indiens d'Amérique > Premiers contacts avec les Européens > Ouvrages avant 1800
- Indiens d'Amérique > Antilles > Histoire > Sources
- Indiens d'Amérique > Histoire > Sources
- History
- Discoveries in geography
- Indians
- Indians > First contact with other peoples
- Indians of the West Indies
- Indianer
- Kulturkontakt
- America > Discovery and exploration > Early works to 1800
- Caribbean Area > History > Sources
- Amérique > Découverte et exploration > Ouvrages avant 1800
- Caraïbes (Région) > Histoire > Sources
- America
- Caribbean Area
- Genre/Form
- Early works
- History
- Sources
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-131) and index.
- Language (note)
- English translations of Spanish or Italian texts.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The letter, and extracts from the journal of Columbus's first voyage to America (1492) -- The report of Diego Chanca on Columbus's second voyage to America (1494) -- Writings of Friar Roman on the antiquities of the Indians, which he collected on request of the admiral with diligence, as a man who knows their language (ca. 1498) -- The deposition of Rodrigo Figueroa on the islands of the barbarous Caribes (1520) -- An account of the provinces of the Aruacas by Rodrigo de Navarrete (ca. 1550).
- ISBN
- 9780271037998
- 0271037997
- LCCN
- 2011015423
- OCLC
- 712644669
- SCSB-10878181
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library