Clio: Revista de Pesquisa Histórica (Jun 2010)

PAJÉS, DEMÔNIOS AND CANIBAIS: REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT AMERICAN DIAGNOSIS IN ICONOGRAPHY EUROPEAN CENTURY OF THE XVI CENTURY

  • Rodrigo Luiz Simas de Aguiar ,
  • Aline Maria Müller

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 28

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To justify the American conquest the European needed to barbarize the figure of American Indians. Several images become to attach books and travel reports, promoting the insertion of those figures on the European imaginary in 16th century. Anthropophagi, war, inhumanity of the Indian and the relation between Indian religion and Devil veneration where the main subjects of the chronics. The illustrations of Theodor De Bry‟s book called Americae are in the midst of other responsible by the insertion of those representations on European imaginary. In the chronics, Indian Chiefs and Shamans are constantly represented like responsible to execute the Devil wishes on Earth and also guilty for conduce other Indian to ruin. The association of Indian with the Devil is present on several books engraves of the 16th century, like those that illustrate the book Americae, object of analysis on this article.

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