Hans Staden's True History

by Staden, Hans; Whitehead, Neil L.; Harbsmeier, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780822342311
• ISBN10: 0822342316
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-30
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"There is no doubt that this volume has returned Hans Staden's narrative to its place as a basic text of European expansion and one of the most important accounts of cannibalism. This 1557 text is important for the wealth of its ethnographic observations, taken at first-hand by Staden, and for the narrative structure, which makes it comparable to the journal of Columbus, Raleigh's "Discoveries," or Jean de Lery's "Histoire,""--Stuart Schwartz, George Burton Adams Professor of History, Yale University

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The True History and Description of a Country Populated by a Wild, Naked, and Savage Man-munching People, situated in the New World, America . . .

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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