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Offers information about the myths, ceremonies, and lives of the New World inhabitants whom Columbus first encountered. This title contains many linguistic and cultural observations: descriptions of the Indians' healing rituals and their beliefs about their souls after death.

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“[This book] is important for the way in which it anticipates some of the main issues concerning the production of Latin American literature.”—Roberto González Echevarría, author of Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative
“[This is a] highly accessible English translation. . . [of] the earliest work dealing exclusively with the indigenous inhabitants of the New World.”—Patricia Seed, Rice University

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction to the English Edition xi
Introductory Study xvii
An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians I
Appendix A. Christopher Columbus 41
Appendix B. Pietro Martire d'Anghiera 46
Appendix C. Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas 54
Bibliographic Note 68
Index of Taino Words and Names 71

An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians A

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    A Paperback / softback by Fray Ramon Pané, José Juan Arrom, Susan C. Griswold

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      Publisher: Duke University Press
      Publication Date: 15/11/1999
      ISBN13: 9780822323471, 978-0822323471
      ISBN10: 0822323478
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Offers information about the myths, ceremonies, and lives of the New World inhabitants whom Columbus first encountered. This title contains many linguistic and cultural observations: descriptions of the Indians' healing rituals and their beliefs about their souls after death.

      Trade Review
      “[This book] is important for the way in which it anticipates some of the main issues concerning the production of Latin American literature.”—Roberto González Echevarría, author of Myth and Archive: A Theory of Latin American Narrative
      “[This is a] highly accessible English translation. . . [of] the earliest work dealing exclusively with the indigenous inhabitants of the New World.”—Patricia Seed, Rice University

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments ix
      Introduction to the English Edition xi
      Introductory Study xvii
      An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians I
      Appendix A. Christopher Columbus 41
      Appendix B. Pietro Martire d'Anghiera 46
      Appendix C. Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas 54
      Bibliographic Note 68
      Index of Taino Words and Names 71

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