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Of cannibals and kings

by Neil L. Whitehead

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"Translations of the earliest accounts, from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, of the native peoples of the Americas, including Columbus's descriptions of his first voyage. Documents the emergence of a primal anthropology and how Spanish ethnological classifications were integral to colonial discovery, occupation, and conquest"--Provided by publisher.

First contact with EuropeansEarly works to 1800IndiansDiscovery and explorationIndians, first contact with europeansAmerica, discovery and exploration