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Brazilian Cannibals, depicted by Theodor de Bry for Jean de Léry's History of the Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Also Called America, 1578. Travel narrative is a literary genre characterized by factual reportage represented and interpreted through techniques better known in fiction.
Theodor de Bry (also Theodorus de Bry) (1528 – 27 March 1598) was an engraver, goldsmith, editor and publisher, famous for his depictions of early European expeditions to the Americas. The Spanish Inquisition forced de Bry, [ citation needed ] a Protestant , to flee his native, Spanish -controlled Southern Netherlands .
Enemies being killed and roasted in South America – engraving by Theodor de Bry (1592). Cultures that are known or said to have practised exocannibalism include the Azande, [8] [9] the Lendu, and the Songye (especially the Zappo Zaps) in Central Africa, the Batak and Dayak people in Asia, and the Attacotti in Europe.
Engraving by Theodor de Bry for Hans Staden's account of his 1557 captivity. In early Brazil, there was the occurrence of cannibalism among the Tupinamba . [ 6 ] An analysis by Anne B. McGinness argues that the way different Christian missionaries reacted to cannibalism influenced the success or failure of their attempts to convert the ...
Photos of cannibals around the world: In India, exiled Aghori monks of Varanasi drink from human skulls and eat human flesh as part of their rituals to find spiritual enlightenment.
Sale of human flesh in the late 16th century. Engraving by Theodor de Bry illustrating Filippo Pigafetta's Report of the Kingdom of Congo, which contains the oldest known account of cannibalism in Central Africa. Acts of cannibalism in Africa have been reported from various parts of the continent, ranging from prehistory until the 21st century.
De Bry was born in Strasbourg, the elder son and pupil of Dirk de Bry.He greatly assisted his father in works such as, the Florilegium novum, which was published at Frankfort in 1612, and, with the assistance of his brother Johannes Israel, he completed the two volumes of Boissard's 'Romanae urbis Topographia et Antiquitates,' which were left unfinished at his father's death.
At an 18 April 1899 Paris conference, Emilia Pardo Bazán used the term "Black Legend" for the first time to refer to a general view of modern Spanish history: Abroad, our miseries are known and often exaggerated without balance; take as an example the book by M. Yves Guyot, which we can consider as the perfect model of a black legend, the opposite of a golden legend.