{"product_id":"of-cannibals-and-kings-9780271037998","title":"Of Cannibals and Kings","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslations of the earliest accounts, from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, of the native peoples of the Americas, including Columbus’s descriptions of his first voyage. Documents the emergence of a primal anthropology and how Spanish ethnological classifications were integral to colonial discovery, occupation, and conquest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“As the primal text of Europe’s encounter with America, Ramón Pané’s \u003ci\u003eAntiquities of the Indies\u003c\/i\u003e is of unparalleled importance for understanding both the native culture of the Caribbean at the time of contact and the ways in which Europeans tried to make sense of it. This authoritative edition finally gives us a satisfactory English translation and contextualizes Pané by placing his text alongside other key documents of the time, several of them previously untranslated. Most significantly, the collection is introduced by Neil Whitehead’s magisterial survey of the politics of this founding moment of anthropological discourse. \u003ci\u003eOf Cannibals and Kings\u003c\/i\u003e is now an essential text for understanding America.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Peter Hulme,University of Essex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Of Cannibals and Kings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDocuments 1a and 1b\tThe Letter, and Extracts from the Journal of Columbus’s First Voyage to America (1492)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDocument 2\tThe Report of Diego Chanca on Columbus’s Second Voyage to America (1494)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDocument 3\tWritings of Friar Roman on the Antiquities of the Indians, Which He Collected on Request of the Admiral with Diligence, as a Man Who Knows Their Language (ca. 1498)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDocument 4\tThe Deposition of Rodrigo Figueroa on the Islands of the Barbarous \u003ci\u003eCaribes \u003c\/i\u003e(1520)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDocument 5\tAn Account of the Provinces of the \u003ci\u003eAruacas\u003c\/i\u003e by Rodrigo de Navarrete (ca. 1550)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penn State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036864610647,"sku":"9780271037998","price":25.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271037998.jpg?v=1750932789","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/of-cannibals-and-kings-9780271037998","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}