PAJÉS, DEMÔNIOS AND CANIBAIS: REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT AMERICAN DIAGNOSIS IN ICONOGRAPHY EUROPEAN CENTURY OF THE XVI CENTURY
To justify the American conquest the European needed to barbarize the figure of American Indians. Several images become to attach books and travel reports, promoting the insertion of those figures on the European imaginary in 16th century. Anthropophagi, war, inhumanity of the Indian and the rela...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
2010-06-01
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| Series: | Clio: Revista de Pesquisa Histórica |
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| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/revistaclio/article/view/24252/19676 |
| Summary: | To justify the American conquest the European needed to barbarize the
figure of American Indians. Several images become to attach books and travel reports,
promoting the insertion of those figures on the European imaginary in 16th century.
Anthropophagi, war, inhumanity of the Indian and the relation between Indian religion
and Devil veneration where the main subjects of the chronics. The illustrations of
Theodor De Bry‟s book called Americae are in the midst of other responsible by the
insertion of those representations on European imaginary. In the chronics, Indian Chiefs
and Shamans are constantly represented like responsible to execute the Devil wishes on
Earth and also guilty for conduce other Indian to ruin. The association of Indian with
the Devil is present on several books engraves of the 16th century, like those that
illustrate the book Americae, object of analysis on this article. |
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| ISSN: | 2525-5649 2525-5649 |