We Came Naked and Barefoot: The Journey of Cabeza de Vaca across North America (Texas Archaeology and Ethnohistory Series)

337 Pages·2002·2.22 MB·English

by  Alex D. Krieger

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ALEX D. KRIEGER
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Foreword:ix
Preface:xiii
PartI:Introduction:
PartII:TheJourneyofCabezadeVaca:
PartIII:SummaryandConclusions:
Afterword:
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Appendix:HistoriageneralynaturaldelasIndias,
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byGonzaloFernandodeOviedoyValdez:
References:
SupplementalReferences:
AuthorIndex:
SubjectIndex:

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6 THE EARLY--SIXTEENTH-CENTURY odyssey of Álvar Núñez
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CabezadeVacahasbeenthesubjectofmanybooksandscholarlyarticles,
children’sbooks,andtelevisiondocumentaries.Inrecentyearstherehas
beenasteadystreamofpublicationsinvolvingCabezadeVaca,including
new translations of the Spanish accounts and anthropological interpre-
tations,basedonthese,ofhisinteractionwithNativeAmericangroups.
Therearesignificantdifferencesamongthesepublications—inthetrans-
lationsthemselves,onthenatureofhisexperienceswithNativeAmerican
groups, and most notably, widely divergent views of his route, especially
acrossTexas.Twobasicroutesaretracedmostoften:ajourneythatwound
throughcentralTexasandtheTexasPanhandleandonethathasCabeza
deVacaandhiscompanionstraversingsouthernTexasandenteringnorth-
easternMexico.
Despitetherelativelylargebodyofliterature,onlyafewscholarshave
placedCabezadeVaca’saccountintopropercontext,andevenfewerhave
carried on over several decades their studies of the peoples, places, and
eventsdiscussedtherein.T.N.Campbell(CampbellandCampbell)
is one who has ‘‘tracked’’ Cabeza de Vaca for many years. Another was
the late Alex D. Krieger, professor of anthropology at the University of
Washington.
Indeed, it is with the present book, written by Professor Krieger and
editedbyhiswife,MargeryKrieger,thatIbelievearcheologists,anthro-
pologists, geographers, and historians finally have both an authoritative
translationand,perhapsmoreimportantly,aninformedandreasonedde-
scription of the country and peoples Cabeza de Vaca encountered dur-
ing his long journey. Krieger () devoted his doctoral dissertation to
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