STOICALLY NAKED: BEYOND AN EUROCENTRIC VIEW OF INDIANS

Since the white man’s arrival in America, diverse views were built about the Indian behavior, mainly in face of death and pain. Being little or seriously mistaken, form contemporary first colonizer writers to 20th century writers, a writing goes by: the one who characterizes and defines the autochth...

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Main Authors: Vera Lucia Teixeira Kauss, Marcos Teixeira de Souza
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2011-12-01
Series:Espaço Ameríndio
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Online Access:http://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EspacoAmerindio/article/view/24127
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Summary:Since the white man’s arrival in America, diverse views were built about the Indian behavior, mainly in face of death and pain. Being little or seriously mistaken, form contemporary first colonizer writers to 20th century writers, a writing goes by: the one who characterizes and defines the autochthon is the white man not himself. An unusual view characterizing the Indian is one of an alleged stoicism in his behavior made by Sarmiento.
ISSN:1982-6524