ANTH 2200 Lecture Notes - Hans Staden, Staden, Xavante Language
14 Mar 2014
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Jean de lery: montaigne, rousseau non-colonial anthropological ancestor, lived in the 16th century, French protestant pastor living in brazil not allowed to missionize, what he did was purely observation scientific exercise he was the defender of the indians against hans staden both writers, bestsellers: wrote about the tupinamba indians. Staden wrote about them as wild savage people, but de. Tupinamba cannibalism to french cannibalism during the wars of religion, when the catholics and. Brazilian citizen, what the brazilian government and media are doing is using these indigenous people as a pawn, show favouritism to the. Indians at the expense of the majority of the people who live in the. Amazon the national dynamic created a backlash where people saw the. Indians as antithetical to the interests of the state to be protected from insurgents and foreign invaders: nationalist perspective is also propaganda, saying that the amazon has.
