The inconstancy of the Indian soul : the encounter of Catholics and cannibals in 16th-century Brazil

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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

(Paradigm, 41)

Prickly Paradigm Press, c2011

  • : pbk

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O mármore e a murta : sobre a inconstância da alma selvagem

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"Viveiros de, "O mármore e a murta : sobre a inconstância da alma selvagem", Revista de antropologia. Sãn Paulo, 35;21-74, 1992. This translation was prepared based on a version that the author revised in 2010"--Translation note

Translated from the Portuguese

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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. In the process he draws out some startling and insightful implications of their perceived inconstancy in relation to anthropological debates on culture and religion.

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