Hans staden tupinamba
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True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil
book by Hans Staden
Title page of the Dutch Edition | |
| Author | Hans Staden |
|---|---|
| Original&#;title | Warhaftige Historia und beschreibung eyner Landtschafft der Wilden Nacketen, Grimmigen Menschfresser-Leuthen in der Newenwelt America gelegen |
| Language | German |
| Publisher | Andreas Kolbe |
Publication date | ; &#;years ago&#;() |
| Publication place | Germany |
True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil (German: Warhaftige Historia und beschreibung eyner Landtschafft der Wilden Nacketen, Grimmigen Menschfresser-Leuthen in der Newenwelt America gelegen) is an account published by the German soldier Hans Staden in describing his two trips to the new world. The book is best known for Staden's descriptions of his experiences while held captive by the Tupinambá near Bertioga, Brazil.[1]True History became one of the best-selling travel narratives of the sixteenth century.[2]
Hans Staden arrived in Brazil as a gunner for the Portuguese in and was taken as a prisoner of war by the Tupinambá people of Brazil. The Tupinambá were reputed to perform cannibalistic ritual
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Harry J. Brown
Lehigh University
12/97
In , Hans Staden, a ung Hessian, signed on with a Spanish expedition to Brazil, funnen himself shipwrecked in the land of the infamous Tupinambas, a tribe imagined throughout europe as dog-headed man-eaters who breed, fatten, and butcher human children as civilized men do with pigs. Staden soon discovered that these were not the Cynocephaliof legend (Lestringant 15) but a tribe a of cannibals with a healthy hatred of the Spanish and Portuguese who had for years made cruel and senseless war on them. Since Staden had wrecked with Spaniards, the Tupinambas bound him and prepared him
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Scientist of the Day - Hans Staden
Captives being butchered and roasted by a Tupinamba family group for ritual consumption, woodcut, in Warhaftige Historia und Beschreibung, by Hans Staden, (Biblioteca Nacional do Rio de Janeiro via )
Hans Staden, a German mercenary soldier, was born around , in Homberg (Efze), a town in northern Hesse in central Germany. Like all Hessian mercenaries, he sold his services to whoever would pay, and in Staden's case, he found employment on Portuguese ships ferrying settlers to what would one day be Brazil. He made two trips to the New World, the first in , which was relatively uneventful, and then again in , on a voyage that was much more memorable. The fleet of three ships were all sunk in a storm off the coast of South America; Staden and several others made it to shore and survived in the jungle for two years, before finally making it to Sao Vicente, where he was hired to protect the Portuguese settlement there.
Wall relief with portrait of Hans Staden, Homberg, Hesse (Wikimedia commons)
In late , Staden was captured by a band of Tupinamba natives, who were notorious as fierce warriors who ceremoniously ate the