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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INTRODUCTION. Until the present age the anthropology of the native Brazilians was involved in error and misunderstanding. Various theories were afloat touching their origin: whilst some derived them from a southern focus, where modern Paraguay lies, others made them emigrants from the wilds and wolds of the northern continent. As regards their mutual relationship many, misled by the system of what appeared to be national names, distributed them into separate races, whilst a few, justly observing that the language was single and undivided, and that the same terms might be traced from Florida to the Rio de la Plata, determined the family to be one, without, however, explaining how and why each section seemed to claim a different and distinguishing title. Upon the latter point it may be useful to enlarge. An immense confusion was caused by the old writers, whose books became the authorities upon the subject, such as Gabriel Soares (a.d. 1580-87), Yves d'Evreux (a.d. 1613-14), Gaspar Barlseus (a.d. 1647), Padre Sim am de Vasconcellos (a.d. 1628), and Jaboatam (a.d. 1761). The authors who took from them, erudite Sou they for instance, could not but perpetuate theevil, and it was not before the days of M. F. Adolfo de Varnhagen that we have anything like a sensible ethnological statement. The error was simply that of dividing a single people into a multitude of different nations, each with its own name and habitat. For instance, Gaspar Barlaeus in a copy of verses addressed to Count Maurice of Nassau, thus enumerates the barbarians subjected to the sway of the Netherlands: ? Nee barbara sperne Verba, Magayates et qui sibi lurida formant Tela, Tabajarrea et pictos membra Tapujas Patagones et Canibales, pastumque cruore Humano deforme; durosque Cae'tas Tupiguas et Ami...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217623803
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 80
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217623808
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 159 gr


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