Native Brazil : beyond the convert and the cannibal, 1500-1900

Native Brazil : beyond the convert and the cannibal, 1500-1900 / edited by Hal Langfur.

This volume is a significant contribution to understanding the ways Brazil's native peoples shaped their own histories.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Langfur, Hal (Author, Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2014]
Series:Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
Subjects:
Indians of South America > Brazil > History.
Indians, Treatment of > Brazil > History.
Indians of South America > First contact with other peoples > Brazil.
Indians of South America > Missions > Brazil > History.
Indians of South America > Brazil > Government relations.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Colonization
Indians of South America
Indians of South America > First contact with other peoples
Indians of South America > Government relations
Indians of South America > Missions
Indians, Treatment of
Brazil > Colonization.
Brazil
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : recovering Brazil's Indigenous pasts / Hal Langfur
  • The Society of Jesus and the first aldeias of Brazil / Alida C. Metcalf
  • Land and economic resources of Indigenous aldeias in Rio de Janeiro : conflicts and negotiations, seventeenth to nineteenth centuries / Maria Regina Celestino de Almeida
  • Colonial intrusions and the transformation of native society in the Amazon Valley, 1500-1800 / Neil L. Whitehead
  • The Amazonian native nobility in late-colonial Pará / Barbara A. Sommer
  • Indian autonomy and slavery in the forests and towns of colonial Minas Gerais / Hal Langfur and Maria Leônia Chaves de Resende
  • Catechism and capitalism : imperial Indigenous policy on a Brazilian frontier, 1808-1845 / Judy Bieber
  • Catechism and captivity : Indian policy in Goiás, 1780-1889 / Mary Karasch
  • Indigenous resistance in central Brazil, 1770-1890 / Mary Karasch and David McCreery.

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