An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians - A New Edition, with an Introductory Study, Notes, and Appendices by Jose Juan Arrom

The first book written in the Americas in a European language, giving Pane's fifteenth-century account of the native inhabitants he encountered during the Spanish conquest of the Antilles.

List of contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction to the English Edition xi

Introductory Study xvii

An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians I

Appendix A. Christopher Columbus 41

Appendix B. Pietro Martire d'Anghiera 46

Appendix C. Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas 54

Bibliographic Note 68

Index of Taino Words and Names 71

About the author

Fray Ramon Pané, a self-described “poor friar of the Order of Saint Jerome,” arrived in Hispaniola with Christopher Columbus in 1494 where he spent the next two years living with and recording the lives of its indigenous inhabitants.
José Juan Arrom is Professor Emeritus of Latin American Literature at Yale University and the author of numerous books, including Imaginación del Nuevo Mundo.

Summary

Offers information about the myths, ceremonies, and lives of the New World inhabitants whom Columbus first encountered. This title contains many linguistic and cultural observations: descriptions of the Indians' healing rituals and their beliefs about their souls after death.

Product details

• Authors: Fray Ramonpane, Fray Ramon Pane, Ramon Pane, Fray Ramon Pané
• Assisted by: Jose Arrom (Editor), Jose Juan Arrom (Editor), José Juan Arrom (Editor), Susan Griswold (Translation), Susan C Griswold (Translation), Susan C. Griswold (Translation)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.1999
• EAN: 9780822323259
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2325-9
• No. of pages: 104
• Illustrations: 3 maps
• Series: Latin America in Translation; Latin America in Translation
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Karibik, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Christi Geburt bis 1500 nach Chr., Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte