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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Main Author: Zir, Alessandro, 1976-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Portuguese
Published: Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2011
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