book chapter
Descriptive treatise on Brazil in 1587
Revista do Instituto Historico e Geographico do Brazil • Rio De Janeiro • Published In 1851 • Pages: 94-347 [incomplete]
By: Soares de Souza, Gabriel, Métraux, Alfred.
Abstract
This bulky work (365 pages) was written in the second half of the sixteenth century by a Portuguese who resided in Brazil for a long time. It is a complete description of the colony from the geographical, botanical, zoological and anthropological points of view. The author resided mainly in the region of Bahia and the Tupi tribe which he describes is the one that lived around that city. Soares de Souza gives valuable historical information on the Tupinamba and their migrations. The anthropological section contains many minute details which he alone gives; unfortunately, however, his style is clumsy and sometimes obscure. He also mentions the culture traits that differentiated the coastal Tupi tribes. In the botanical section there are many data on economy. He also carefully defines the geographical boundaries of various Indian tribes, Tupi and Tapuya.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2003
- Region
- South America
- Sub Region
- Eastern South America
- Document Type
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Unknown
- Document Rating
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- Analyst
- Alfred Métraux ; 1971
- Field Date
- 1570-1587
- Coverage Date
- 1570-1587
- Coverage Place
- Bahia, Brazil
- Notes
- Gabriel Soares de Souza
- This document consists of excerpts
- Translation of: [Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587]
- The original Portuguese text is not included
- Translated for the HRAF files by prior to 1956
- LCCN
- 98648817
- LCSH
- Tupinamba Indians