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work_zcow3ew5rngopiazufqgh7yuxm	Carole A. Myscofski	Imagining Cannibals: European Encounters with Native Brazilian Women	2007	15	.pdf	application/pdf	6597	424	59	At first the emphases remained on likenesses, with useful differences noted; only the oftenrepeated claim that indigenous Brazilian alphabets lacked the letters f, and Spanish might imagine: the cannibal women of Brazil. records of the colonial encounters between Europeans and native Brazilians and Brazilian women became Amazons, witches, and anthropophagi. native Brazilian women; I contend that they are symbolic of Portuguese In their depictions of Brazilian Indian women, Europeans utilized a Later missionary writers concurred with Caminha in his assessment of Brazilian women, emphasizing the cannibal men occasionally cohabited with Amazon women and fathered their children One of the primary sources for the imagery of cannibal women in Brazil the images of cannibal women, particularly as ancient hags craving human old women whose perverse longings for human flesh provoked men to war, Imagining Cannibals: European Encounters with Native Brazilian Women Imagining Cannibals: European Encounters with Native Brazilian Women	./cache/work_zcow3ew5rngopiazufqgh7yuxm.pdf	./txt/work_zcow3ew5rngopiazufqgh7yuxm.txt