An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians
Subtitle: A New Edition, with an Introductory Study, Notes, and Appendices by José Juan Arrom (Latin America in Translation/En Traducción/Em Tradução)
Contributors: Neil L. Whitehead (Contributor); José Juan Arrom (Editor); Susan Griswold (Translator)
Edition: New Sub edition
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: January 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9780822323259
Subjects: American history: pre-Columbian period, BCE to c 1500; History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Social Science; Hispaniola; Cultural And Social Anthropology; Sources; History - General History; Religion; Sociology; Caribbean islands; History; Anthropology - General; Caribbean & West Indies - General; Anthropology/Ethnography; History, Latin American; Latin American Studies; First contact with Europeans; Indians of the West Indies
First sentence: I, Fray Ramon, a humble friar of the Order of Saint Jerome, am writing what I have been able to discover and understand of the beliefs and idolatries of the Indians, and of how they worship their gods, by order of the illustrious Lord Admiral and Viceroy and Governor of the Islands and Mainland of the Indies.