Narvaez Expedition
The nature of the Spanish exploration in the Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition is like any other European expedition to the new worlds, to conquer and reap the wealth and riches of unexplored lands. But as the Narvaez expedition runs it course, it in the end fails due to the expedition’s lack of knowledge of the land and it’s people, cooperation, and planning. Although the expedition’s main goals were lost, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, one of the four survivors of the expedition, is able to gain some benefit. Cabeza de Vaca experiences what life is in the new world and is able to share it with everybody in Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition. Although some may find Cabeza de Vaca’s writing of the Narvaez chronicle objective, it is evident that some bias slips through that exposes that infamous European ethnocentrism. Although the nature expedition is reason for gaining wealth and power, Cabeza de Vaca has alternate motives for exploring such a land. Cabeza de Vaca portrays the expedition like an anthropological study. Along with giving the expedition objectives, Cabeza de Vaca describes activities, language, and customs of the Native Americans. For example Cabeza de Vaca devotes virtually all of c
Cabeza de Vaca is very objective at times when he describes the nature of the Native Americans but bias occasionally slips through, and the ethnocentric thought process that modern anthropologist today try to avoid slips through the text in Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition. At times, Cabeza de Vaca objectively illustrates a particular custom of the Native American such as “their custom is to bury the dead, except those among them who are medicine men” (Cabeza 38). Cabeza de Vaca writes this particular text without any criticism. But later on Cabeza de Vaca writes, “they cure diseases by breathing on the sick, and with their breath and their hands they drive the ailment away” (Cabeza 40). He then adds, “we laughed, taking it as a joke” (Cabeza 40). As you can see, Cabeza de Vaca attempts to be objective as possible but a few times here and there shows his bias. Cabeza de Vaca writes this book almost as if a warning or a moral to teach to future explorers of the new world. Cabeza de Vaca tells them to not make the same mistake as he and his expedition did and to use the information of the land and it’s people to their advantage. So why does this particular expedition fail? The Narvaez expedition fails because of three reasons. The first reason is the Christian’s lack of knowledge of the land and it’s people. The assailing Native American tribes take advantage of the Christian’s lack of knowledge of the new world and it’s people. In
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