Da conversão do exótico: viagens, festas e relatos no século XVI

Abstract

Relation of the festivities celebrated in the XVIth century through the discoveries, sacrifices, wars, theatres performances and sanctities, like the ones witnessed and described in the accounts of adventurers, anonymous, sailors, explorers, soldiers, heirs, officials and missionaries; or brief essay about how the Brazil came to be, through the purge of exoticism and through the convention of the difference as condition of the colonial genesis.