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Luso-Brazilian Encounters of the Sixteenth Century: A Styles of Thinking Approach

Luso-Brazilian Encounters of the Sixteenth Century: A Styles of Thinking Approach

by Alessandro Zir (Author)

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Synopsis

The 16th-century corpus of the Portuguese colonizers of Brazil is well-known for the presence of strange elements, such as references to monsters and demons, bizarre descriptions, and odd systems of classifications of plants and animals. Instead of dismissing such elements as mere early-modern eccentricities, Luso-Brazilian Encounters of the Sixteenth Century aims to unveil epistemological and mainly ontological issues that might give intelligibility to them, and connect the work of the Portuguese with pre-modern and also post-modern styles of thinking in literary and mystical traditions.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 128
 Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 24 Jun 2011
ISBN 10: 161147020X
ISBN 13: 9781611470208

Media Reviews
Zir offers some very important insights into the problem of commensurability that will be useful to historians interested in early encounters, and his book constitutes a good introduction for historians to the work of Ian Hacking. ... Zir's book is thought-provoking and worth wrestling with. * Sixteenth Century Journal *
How do we face those narratives about fantastic beings and deeds without reducing them to the anachronistic naturalistic view of modern official science?. . . .Zir comes up to the challenge, whose outcome, shared with the reader, culminates in a more realistic (if not neorealist) understanding of the fantastic. * Scientiae Studia *
An enlightening interpretation of foundational documents, which will prove to be very helpful for students interested in the early global maritime expansions. * Confluencia *
Author Bio
Alessandro Zir is researcher at the Latin-American Institute of Advanced Studies, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.