9780826316394 - O Brave New People: The European Invention of the American Indian von Moffitt, John F.; Sebastian, Santiago (2 Ergebnisse)

1996. Anthroppological Theory, North America, South America, Mesoamerica, Europe. University of New Mexico Press very good - fine cloth and dust jacket 399p.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. In 1492 when Christopher Columbus encountered native inhabitants of the Americas, he thought he was in the Far East ----and so he mistakenly called them Indians. The misnomer has persisted and with it a host of medieval and Renaissance beliefs and misconceptions about Indians, Eastern and Western. Those anomalous Indian stereotypes generated by the Columbian encounter, both positive and negative, still determine many details of present-day image of Native Americans. Never before have the origins, as well as the effects, of those original Indian images, either textual or graphic been examined in such searching detail. This original, provocative, and sometimes unsettling book will be important to scholars of history, anthropology, literature, medieval and Renaissance European culture, cartography, and the pictorial imagery of early colonial America. It is essential reading for any one seeking to understand the still-evolving, and still largely unresolved European/Native encounter.