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Of cannibals and kings : primal anthropology in the Americas /

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 colonia...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whitehead, Neil L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:English translations of Spanish or Italian texts.
Published: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2011]
Series:Latin American originals ; 7.
Subjects:
Indians > First contact with Europeans > Early works to 1800.
America > Discovery and exploration > Early works to 1800.
Indians of the West Indies > History > Sources.
Indians > History > Sources.
Caribbean Area > History > Sources.
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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.
Physical Description:xii, 136 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [127]-131) and index.
ISBN:9780271037998 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0271037997 (pbk. : alk. paper)