Of cannibals and kings
Subtitle: primal anthropology in the Americas
By: Neil L. Whitehead
Series: Latin American originals -- v. 7
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780271037998
Subjects: First contact with Europeans; Early works to 1800; Indians; Discovery and exploration
Description: "Translations 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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.