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Luso-Brazilian encounters of the sixteenth century : a styles of thinking approach /

As it happens with other early-Modern corpora, the descriptive texts from 16th-century encounters of the Portuguese colonizers in Brazil are well-known for their strangeness. In them we find references to entities like monsters and demons, bizarre descriptions, and odd classification systems of plan...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zir, Alessandro, 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Portugués
Publicado: Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, [2011]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:As it happens with other early-Modern corpora, the descriptive texts from 16th-century encounters of the Portuguese colonizers in Brazil are well-known for their strangeness. In them we find references to entities like monsters and demons, bizarre descriptions, and odd classification systems of plants and animals. For the most part, these elements are dismissed as mere eccentricities by modern scholars studying these texts. Instead, this book takes these elements seriously. They are focused on and tackled with a theoretical tool-styles of thinking-not yet used in Luso-Brazilian studies, and co.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xix, 121 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781611470215
1611470218