Books by Eduardo Viveiros De Cas

Presents a collection of essays and lectures of the author. This volume features new English translations of a number of previously unpublished works.

In the mid-sixteenth century, Jesuit missionaries working in what is now Brazil were struck by what they called the inconstancy of the people they met, the indigenous Tupi-speaking tribes of the Atlantic coast. This title situates the Jesuit missionaries' accounts of the Tupi people in historical perspective.