  the tupinambÃ¡ were one of the various tupi ethnic groups that inhabited present-day brazil before the conquest of the region by portuguese colonial settlers. the tupinambÃ¡s lived in sÃ£o luis, maranhÃ£o. their language survives today in the form of nheengatu. == the tupinamba in western travel literature== the usages and habits of the tupinambÃ¡s were abundantly described in the cosmographie universelle (1572) of andrÃ© thevet, in histoire d'un voyage faict en la terre du brÃ©sil (1578), by jean de lÃ©ry and hans staden's true story and description of a country of wild, naked, grim, man-eating people in the new world. thevet and lery were an inspiration for montaigne's famous essay des cannibales,michel de montaigne,essais, book 1, chap.31carlo ginzburg (2012)threads and traces: true, false, fictive, (papers), university of california press, isbn 9780520274488, chapter 3: montaigne, cannibals, and grottoes and influenced the creation of the myth of the "noble savage" during the enlightenment. image:hans_staden,_tupinamba_portrayed_in_cannibalistic_feast.jpg|original 1557 hans staden woodcut of the tupinambÃ¡ portrayed in a cannibalistic feast. file:claude d'abbeville, histoire de la mission, louis henri.png|a tupinambÃ¡ named "louis henri" who visited louis xiii in paris in 1613, in claude d'abbeville, histoire de la mission. file:manoel lopes rodrigues - sonho de catarina paraguaÃ§u.jpg|catarina paraguaÃ§u, wife of portuguese sailor diogo Ãlvares correia, in an 1871 painting ===notes===  ===bibliography=== *lÃ©ry, jean, and janet whatley. history of a voyage to the land of brazil, otherwise called america. berkeley: university of california press, 1990. print. 
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