Tupinambá people
The Tupinambá were one of the various Tupi ethnic groups that inhabited present-day Brazil before the conquest of the region by Portuguese colonial settlers. The Tupinambás lived in São Luis, Maranhão.[1] Their language survives today in the form of Nheengatu.
The Tupinambás were abundantly described in André Thevet's 1572 Cosmographie universelle (English: The New Found World, or Antarctike), in Jean de Léry's Histoire d'un voyage faict en la terre du Brésil (English: History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil) (1578), and Hans Staden's Warhaftige Historia und beschreibung eyner Landtschafft der Wilden Nacketen (English: True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil), in which he describes the Tupinamba practicing cannibalism. Thevet and Léry were an inspiration for Montaigne's famous essay Des Cannibales,[2][3] and influenced the creation of the myth of the "noble savage" during the Enlightenment.
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A Tupinambá named "Louis Henri" who visited Louis XIII in Paris in 1613, in Claude d'Abbeville, Histoire de la mission. -
Catarina Paraguaçu, wife of Portuguese sailor Diogo Álvares Correia, in an 1871 painting
![Original 1557 Hans Staden woodcut of the Tupinambá portrayed in a cannibalistic feast.[4]](/wiki/File:Hans_Staden,_Tupinamba_portrayed_in_cannibalistic_feast.jpg)
The Tupinambá may have given their name to the common French word for the Jerusalem Artichoke, the topinambour.[5]
References
- ^ "Map of Maranhao, City of São Luis do Maranhão". World Digital Library. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
- ^ Michel de Montaigne,Essais, Book 1, Chap.30
- ^ Carlo Ginzburg (2012)Threads and Traces: True, False, Fictive, (papers), University of California Press, ISBN 9780520274488, Chapter 3: Montaigne, Cannibals, and Grottoes
- ^ "True History and Description of a Country in America, whose Inhabitants are Savage, Naked, Very Godless and Cruel Man-Eaters". World Digital Library. Retrieved 26 April 2013.
- ^ Graham, Peter. "Chez Gram". Retrieved 17 February 2018.
Sources
- Léry, Jean, and Janet Whatley. History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Otherwise Called America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Print.
