Using the travel writings of Amerigo Vespucci, the voyage of Pedro Álvares Cabral and Jean de Lérys book, History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Also Called America, this thesis will investigate the role of the individual in the narrative of New World contact. This thesis specifically moves against the tendency in New World historiography to rely upon meta-narratives and a singular, universal European presence to explain the circumstances of the New World contact. This project seeks to gain
greater understanding of the unique and divergent representations of indigenous cultures
contained within travel writing by being sensitive towards the travel writers individual
characteristics such as educational background, religion and participation in intellectual
endeavours. The specific example used in this thesis will be the Tupínamba of coastal Brazil and will be supported by the anthropological understandings we have about this extinct indigenous group. Overall, this thesis seeks to show that in the creating of metanarratives
regarding the New World experience of Europeans, it is easy to forget that the word European is as meaningless as the word Indian in terms of academic usefulness.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:USASK/oai:usask.ca:etd-01192010-110405 |
| Date | 28 January 2010 |
| Creators | Clarke, Christopher John |
| Contributors | Miquelon, Dale, Nelson, Brent, Deutscher, Tom, Handy, Jim |
| Publisher | University of Saskatchewan |
| Source Sets | University of Saskatchewan Library |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://library.usask.ca/theses/available/etd-01192010-110405/ |
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