Read Jean de Lery’s travel account of Brazil, and Montaigne’s “Of Cannibals” (in pdf starts page 13). Then write a 2-3 page response: Consider the tropes of the cannibal and the virtuous pagan / noble savage at work in the Lry and Montaigne accounts. How do these tropes interact and which is more dominant? Did these texts advance the notion of the Tupinamba as cannibals or not?

Read Jean de Lery’s travel account of Brazil, and Montaigne’s “Of Cannibals” (in pdf starts page 13). Then write a 2-3 page response: Consider the tropes of the cannibal and the virtuous pagan / noble savage at work in the Lry and Montaigne accounts. How do these tropes interact and which is more dominant? Did these texts advance the notion of the Tupinamba as cannibals or not?

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