Ontological excess and metonymy in early-modern descriptions of Brazil: an amodern para-scientific approach to nature

This essay relies on and furthers a hypothesis advanced in previous research: that the well-known eccentricities to be found in the early-modern corpus of the Portuguese colonizers of Brazil—its references to entities like monsters and demons, its bizarre descriptions, and odd classification systems...

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I publikationen:	Marburg Journal of Religion
Huvudupphov:	Zir, Alessandro
Materialtyp:	Artikel (Zeitschrift)
Språk:	engelska
Utgiven:	Philipps-Universität Marburg 2020
Ämnen:	para-scientific ontolgy figurative language Religion Brazil analogy English Portuguese colonization words and things Philosophy and theory of religion
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