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Ramón Pané
BornUnknown
Catalonia, Spain
DiedUnknown
OccupationFriar
Notable workAn Account of the Antiquities of the Indians

Ramón Pané was a Spanish friar of the Hieronymite Order who accompanied Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to the New World in 1494. He is the author of Antiquities of the Indies, a ...[1][2][3][4][5] He is also known as the person who first introduced tobacco to Europe in 1518.[6]

Life edit

Ramon Pane came from the Spanish region of Catalonia, where he entered the priesthood as a friar of the Order of St. Jerome.[7]

Time in Hispaniola edit

The Account of the Antiquities of the Indians (c. 1498) edit

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  • Arrom, Jose Juan (1999a). "Introduction to the English Edition". In Ramón Pané (ed.). An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians. Durham: Duke University Press. pp. xi–xv. ISBN 978-0822323471. {{cite book}}: More than one of |author= and |last= specified (help)
  • Echevarria, Roberto Gonzalez (1997). "Fray Ramon Pane - "How the Men Were Parted From the Women"". The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 25–27. ISBN 978019513085. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
  • McNeil, W. K. (1982). "History in American Folklore: An Historical Perspective" (Restricted Access). Western Folkore. 41 (1): 30–35. doi:10.2307/1499724. JSTOR 1499724. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Thomson, David (1993). "The Cronistas de Indias Revisited: Historical Reports, Archaeological Evidence, and Literary and Artistic Traces of Indigenous Music and Dance in the Greater Antilles at the Time of the Conquista" (Restricted Access). Latin American Music Review. 14 (2): 181–201. doi:10.2307/780174. JSTOR 780174. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  • Whitehead, Neil L. (2011). "Introduction". Of Cannibals and Kings: Primal Anthropology in the Americas. Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 2–47. ISBN 9780271037998.
  • Winter, Joseph C (2000). Tobacco Use by Native North Americans: Sacred Smoke and Silent Killer. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. p. 2. ISBN 9780806132624.

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Notes to myself edit

Thomson: indebted for info on Tainos (183), extremely little known (183). Quote: The Relacion de Fray Ramon is not only our most authentic description of the life and customs of the Antillean indigenes but must also be recognized as the first essay in the field of American anthropology more generally' (183). Catalan > Castilian (183)