How to learn about indigenous cultures in colonial times: Hans Staden's Historia 1557; textual history and a controversial debate about contemporary discourses

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  • Franz Obermeier Universität zu Kiel

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7917.2011v16n1p132

Abstract

The travel narrative of the German Hans Staden, Warhaftige Historia, the first book published about Brazil in 1557, is a major source for our knowledge about colonial Brazil and its indigenous civilizations, mainly the Tupinambá. This contribution shows that the observations in the book are corresponding to reality, and that the author conceives his narrative also as an answer to “foreign discourses”, moral evaluations about the indigenous people and religious views about them in a critical manner.

Author Biography

Franz Obermeier, Universität zu Kiel

Estudos de línguas românicas e eslavas, diploma de traductor em francés, Mestre em filologias românicas e eslavas (Tema: Os franceses em Rio de Janeiro 1555-1560), Doutor em filologías románicas e eslavas (Tema: a colónia francesa do Maranhão (1612-1615) publicado como: Französische Brasilienreiseberichte im 17. Jahrhundert, Bonn 1995, atualmente na biblioteca universitaria de Kiel.

 

Area de pesquisa: História colonial da America do sul, livros de viajem do século dos descob­rimentos (viajantes franceses (Thevet, Léry, Claude d’Abbeville, Yves d’Évreux) e alemães: Hans Staden, Ulrich Schmidel [Ulrico Schmidl]), iconografia do Brasil nos séculos XVI/XVII (Publicação: Brasilien in Illustrationes des 16. Jahrhunderts, Frankfurt 2000), línguas indí­genas, escritura indígena na época colonial na América do sul (Brasil e La Plata).

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Published

2011-06-30

How to Cite

OBERMEIER, Franz. How to learn about indigenous cultures in colonial times: Hans Staden’s Historia 1557; textual history and a controversial debate about contemporary discourses. Anuário de Literatura, [S. l.], v. 16, n. 1, p. 132–153, 2011. DOI: 10.5007/2175-7917.2011v16n1p132. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/literatura/article/view/2175-7917.2011v16n1p132. Acesso em: 13 may. 2024.

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Vol. 16 No. 1 (2011)

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