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O Brave New People explores the myths and preconceptions early European explorers brought with them to the New World and the ways in which such ideas have shaped misperceptions about American Indians to the present. Thinking he was in the Far East, Christopher Columbus labeled native inhabitants Indians in 1492, and so fixed a misnomer that carries with it a whole host of medieval and Renaissance European beliefs and legends. The authors find in both graphic and literary sources evidence of evolving attitudes about the legends of paradise on earth and the invention of the notion of the noble savage. They reveal that long before Columbuss discovery, Europeans used the same imagery to convey subcultural traits belonging to a non-European Primitive Other.
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O Brave New People : The European Invention of the American Indian
author
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Moffitt, John F.; Sebastian, Santiago.
publisher
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University of New Mexico
isbn10 | asin
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0826319890
print isbn13
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9780826319890
ebook isbn13
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9780585277912
language
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English
subject
Indians--Public opinion--History, Public opinion--Europe--History, Indians--Pictorial works--History, America--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
publication date
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1998
lcc
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E59.P89M63 1998eb
ddc
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973.1
subject
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Indians--Public opinion--History, Public opinion--Europe--History, Indians--Pictorial works--History, America--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
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O Brave New People
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O Brave New People
The European Invention of the American Indian
John F. Moffitt Santiago Sebastin
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque
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1996 by the University of New Mexico Press
All rights reserved.
First paperbound printing, 1998.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Moffitt, John F. (John Francis), 1940 O brave new people : the European invention of the American Indian / John F. Moffitt, Santiago Sebastin. 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8263-1639-5, cloth ISBN 0-8263-1989-0, paper 1. IndiansPublic opinionHistory. 2. Public opinionEuropeHistory. 3. IndiansPictorial worksHistory. 4. AmericaDescription and travelEarly work to 1800. I. Sebastin, Santiago. II. Title. E59.P89M63 1996 973.1dc20 94-48680 CIP
Grateful acknowledgment is given to the Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States' Universities for support of this volume.
Frontispiece: Jan van der Straet (Stradanus), Allegory of the European Discovery of America: Vespucci Meets the Amazon, 1590.
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In Memoriam Erwin Walter Palm (191088) Colleague and Mutual Friend and Santiago Sebastin Lpez (193195) Co-author, Colleague, and Beloved Friend
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O, Wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't. Shakespeare, The Tempest, V, I, 1825
thou Angel bringst with thee A heaven like Mahomets Paradice Licence my roaving hands, and let them go, Before, behind, above, below. O my America! my new-found-land, My kingdome, safeliest when with one man man'd, My Myne of precious stones: My Emperie, How blest am I in this discovering thee! John Donne, Elegie XIX: "To his Mistress Going to Bed"
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Contents
List of Illustrations
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Introduction
The European Invention of the American Indian
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1 "India" and "The Earthly Paradse": The Contribution of the European Middle Ages to the American Legend
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2 Medieval Literary Conventions in the First European Encounters with the American Indians
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3 Early Pictures of the Indian in Renaissance Art
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4 The Influence of Classical Models on the Renaissance Image of the American Indian
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5 An Indian Eden Lost
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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List of Illustrations
Frontispiece: Jan van der Straet (Stradanus), Allegory of the European Discovery of America: Vespucci Meets the Amazon, 1590.
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1. Giovanni di Paolo, Expulsion from Paradise, ca. 1445. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Lehman Collection).
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2. Detail of Figure 1: Giovanni's mappamundi.
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3. Andrea Bianco Mappamundi, 1436 (as redrawn by L. A. Brown, 1979).
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