a Christian marriage ceremony, without regard for the traditional native rules" (Levi-Strauss, 1992, 216).
What we see in the differences between Lery and Levi-Strauss is not unexpected. European travelers in the 16th century were invariably Eurocentric and saw native people as inferior in almost every way. Lery, for all the detailed observation of facts he recorded, was hopelessly biased in his analysis of the native people of Brazil. The diversity of the world for Lery was divided into Europe, which held the truth, and the rest of the world, which
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