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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Udgivet i:	Marburg Journal of Religion
Hovedforfatter:	Zir, Alessandro
Format:	Artikel (Zeitschrift)
Sprog:	engelsk
Udgivet:	Philipps-Universität Marburg 2020
Fag:	ontolgy English words and things Portuguese colonization para-scientific Brazil analogy figurative language
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