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After his return to Europe in 1555, the support of Dr. [[Johann Dryander]] in [[Marburg]] enabled Staden to publish an account of his captivity, entitled ''Warhaftige Historia und beschreibung eyner Landtschafft der Wilden Nacketen, Grimmigen Menschfresser-Leuthen in der Newenwelt America gelegen'' (''True Story and Description of a Country of Wild, Naked, Grim, Man-eating People in the New World, America'') ([[1557]]).<ref>[http://www.athenapub.com/staden1.htm Hans Staden and the Tupinamba in southeast Brazil] - URL retrieved [[September 14]], [[2006]]</ref>. |
After his return to Europe in 1555, the support of Dr. [[Johann Dryander]] in [[Marburg]] enabled Staden to publish an account of his captivity, entitled ''Warhaftige Historia und beschreibung eyner Landtschafft der Wilden Nacketen, Grimmigen Menschfresser-Leuthen in der Newenwelt America gelegen'' (''True Story and Description of a Country of Wild, Naked, Grim, Man-eating People in the New World, America'') ([[1557]]).<ref>[http://www.athenapub.com/staden1.htm Hans Staden and the Tupinamba in southeast Brazil] - URL retrieved [[September 14]], [[2006]]</ref>. |
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The book became an international bestseller and was translated into Latin and many other European |
The book became an international bestseller and was translated into Latin and many other European languages, reaching a total of 76 editions. |
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==Cannibalism== |
==Cannibalism== |
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Revision as of 16:09, 16 April 2008
Hans Staden (c. 1525 in Homberg (Efze) — c. 1579 Wolfhagen or Korbach) was a German soldier and mariner, who made two voyages to South America in Spanish or Portuguese ships.
While in South America for the second time, he was captured by Brazil's Tupinambá indigenous tribe.
After his return to Europe in 1555, the support of Dr. Johann Dryander in Marburg enabled Staden to publish an account of his captivity, entitled Warhaftige Historia und beschreibung eyner Landtschafft der Wilden Nacketen, Grimmigen Menschfresser-Leuthen in der Newenwelt America gelegen (True Story and Description of a Country of Wild, Naked, Grim, Man-eating People in the New World, America) (1557).[1].
The book became an international bestseller and was translated into Latin and many other European languages, reaching a total of 76 editions.
Cannibalism
The Warhaftige Historia provided detailed descriptions of Tupinambá life and customs, illustrated by woodcuts. However, the aspect of the book that received the most attention, from the time of publication up to the present, was cannibalism. Staden claimed that the Tupinambá were cannibals, gave vivid eyewitness accounts of the killing, preparing and eating of war-captives, and wrote that his captors would have eaten him, as well, had he not escaped. According to one anecdote, the Indians at one point gave him a delicious soup; after finishing his dinner, he found in the bottom of the cauldron some small skulls, which he later found out to be the skulls of the children in his choir.
Some scholars have challenged the book's reliability, arguing that Staden invented its sensational accounts of cannibalism.[2] Others defend the book as an important and reliable ethnohistorical source.[3]
Cultural References
- Hans Staden - Lá Vem Nossa Comida Pulando (Hans Staden - There He Comes, Our Food Jumping), a 1999 film, directed by Luis Alberto Pereira), spoken in the Tupi indigenous language (with subtitles in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish) explores his adventures while being held captive by the Tupinamba.[4]
- Como Era Gostoso o meu Francês (How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman), a 1970 film, was based on Staden's stories (but did not include him as a character) which adds a subplot about the main character's love affair with a young native woman.
References
- ^ Hans Staden and the Tupinamba in southeast Brazil - URL retrieved September 14, 2006
- ^ William Arens, The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology & Anthropophagy (Oxford University Press, 1979), 22-31; Michaela Schmolz-Haberlein and Mark Haberlein, “Hans Staden, Neil L. Whitehead, and the Cultural Politics of Scholarly Publishing,” Hispanic American Historical Review 81, no. 3-4 (2001): 745-751.
- ^ Donald W. Forsyth, “Three Cheers for Hans Staden: The Case for Brazilian Cannibalism,” Ethnohistory 32, no. 1 (1985): 17-36; Neil L. Whitehead, “Hans Staden and the Cultural Politics of Cannibalism,” Hispanic American Historical Review 80, no. 4 (2000): 721-751.
- ^ (DVD Hans Staden - URL September 14, 2006
External links
- Staden, Hans. Hans Staden's True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil. Edited and translated by Neil L. Whitehead and Michael Harbsmeier. Duke University Press, 2008.
- Template:De icon Hans Staden in Wolfhagen - 2007 conference agenda
- Template:De icon speech about Hans Staden
- Template:De icon Hans Staden: Wahrhaftige Historia
- Harry J. Brown, 'Hans Staden among the Tupinambas.'
- Short Review of Staden's Book, with Woodcuts
- The movie in IMDb