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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820487203321

Autore

Roller Heather

Titolo

Amazonian routes : Indigenous mobility and colonial communities in northern Brazil / / Heather F. Roller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8047-9212-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 342 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)

Disciplina

981/.1

Soggetti

Indians of South America - Amazon River Region - 18th century

Indians of South America - Brazil, North - History - 18th century

Migration, Internal - Amazon River Region - History - 18th century

Migration, Internal - Brazil, North - History - 18th century

Village communities - Amazon River Region - History - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

From missions to towns : Amazonian settlements in an era of reform -- Forest collecting expeditions and the pursuit of opportunities in the sertão -- Searching for new people -- "The Indians of this town ebb and flow" : absentee movements within the colonial sphere -- Defining Indians and vagrants -- The struggle for autonomy in the early nineteenth century -- Conclusion : mobile and rooted.

Sommario/riassunto

This text reconstructs the world of eighteenth-century Amazonia to argue that indigenous mobility did not undermine settlement or community. In doing so, it revises longstanding views of native Amazonians as perpetual wanderers, lacking attachment to place and likely to flee at the slightest provocation.