The return of Hans Staden : a go-between in the Atlantic world / / Eve M. Duffy & Alida C. Metcalf
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| Autore: |
Duffy Eve M.
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| Titolo: |
The return of Hans Staden : a go-between in the Atlantic world / / Eve M. Duffy & Alida C. Metcalf
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiii, 192 p. ) : ill., maps ; |
| Disciplina: | 980/.01 |
| Soggetto topico: | Indians of South America - Brazil |
| Tupinamba Indians - Social life and customs | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Brazil Description and travel Early works to 1800 |
| Brazil Early works to 1800 | |
| America Early works to 1800 | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | MetcalfAlida C. <1954-> |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [145]-186) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction -- Staden goes to sea -- The lying captive -- The traveler returns -- Staden's images -- Epilogue. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Hans Staden's sixteenth-century account of shipwreck and captivity by the Tupinambá Indians of Brazil was an early modern bestseller. This retelling of the German sailor's eyewitness account known as the True History shows both why it was so popular at the time and why it remains an important tool for understanding the opening of the Atlantic world. Eve M. Duffy and Alida C. Metcalf carefully reconstruct Staden's life as a German soldier, his two expeditions to the Americas, and his subsequent shipwreck, captivity, brush with cannibalism, escape, and return. The authors explore how these events and experiences were recreated in the text and images of the True History. Focusing on Staden's multiple roles as a go-between, Duffy and Metcalf address many of the issues that emerge when cultures come into contact and conflict. An artful and accessible interpretation, The Return of Hans Staden takes a text best known for its sensational tale of cannibalism and shows how it can be reinterpreted as a window into the precariousness of lives on both sides of early modern encounters, when such issues as truth and lying, violence, religious belief, and cultural difference were key to the formation of the Atlantic world. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The return of Hans Staden |
| ISBN: | 1-4214-0421-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910788458003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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