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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807276603321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, [New Mexico] : , : University of New Mexico Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8263-3842-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Collana

Diálogos Series

Altri autori (Persone)

LangfurHal

Disciplina

981

Soggetti

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

Brazil Colonization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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