Hans Staden

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Hans Staden (with beard) watching an indigenous tribe in Brazil practicing cannibalism.

Hans Staden (b. around 1525 – Wolfhagen, 1579) was a German soldier and mariner, who supposedly was held captive by Brazil's Tupinamba indigenous tribe. The account of his voyages and adventures in the New World (Hans Staden: The True History of his Captivity, 1557) was among the first descriptions of America's native customs, and also one of the first ethnologues writing. It is likely his claims were not backed by evidence and were ethnocentric. These false beliefs that natives were "savages" were a large problem with the colonialization of the Americas.

There is a 1999 film ([DVD Hans Staden], 92 min, director Luis Alberto Pereira), spoken in the original Brazilian Tupinamba indigenous language, with subtitles in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish - that explores his adventures while being held captive by the Brazilian indigenous tribe.

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