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UNINA9910965245903321 |
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Metcalf Alida C. <1954-> |
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Go-betweens and the colonization of Brazil, 1500-1600 / / Alida C. Metcalf |
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Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2005 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (392 p.) |
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Indians of South America - First contact with Europeans - Brazil |
Conquerors - Portugal - History - 16th century |
Conquerors - Brazil - History - 16th century |
Brazil Colonization |
Brazil History 16th century |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-362) and index. |
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Go-betweens -- Encounter -- Possession -- Conversion -- Biology -- Slavery -- Resistance -- Power. |
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Doña Marina (La Malinche) .Pocahontas .Sacagawea—their names live on in historical memory because these women bridged the indigenous American and European worlds, opening the way for the cultural encounters, collisions, and fusions that shaped the social and even physical landscape of the modern Americas. But these famous individuals were only a few of the many thousands of people who, intentionally or otherwise, served as "go-betweens" as Europeans explored and colonized the New World. In this innovative history, Alida Metcalf thoroughly investigates the many roles played by go-betweens in the colonization of sixteenth-century Brazil. She finds that many individuals created physical links among Europe, Africa, and Brazil—explorers, traders, settlers, and slaves circulated goods, plants, animals, and diseases. Intercultural liaisons produced mixed-race children. At the cultural level, Jesuit priests and African slaves infused native Brazilian traditions with their own religious practices, while translators became influential go-betweens, negotiating the terms of trade, interaction, and exchange. Most powerful of all, as Metcalf |
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shows, were those go-betweens who interpreted or represented new lands and peoples through writings, maps, religion, and the oral tradition. Metcalf's convincing demonstration that colonization is always mediated by third parties has relevance far beyond the Brazilian case, even as it opens a revealing new window on the first century of Brazilian history. |
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UNINA9910872662803321 |
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Titolo |
Software Engineering Standards: 3rd International Symposium, Experience and Practice |
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[Place of publication not identified], : IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Software engineering |
Software engineering - Economic aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Software Engineering Standards -- Quality management applied to the development of a national checklist for ISO 9001 audits for software -- Verification and validation of the SEAL Software Assessment Tool -- Automated tool support for an emerging international software process assessment standard -- Quantitative analysis of compatibility and correlation of the current SPA/SPI models -- Quantitative evaluation of the SPICE, CMM, ISO 9000 and BOOTSTRAP -- Modelling the reliability of SPICE based assessments. |
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The proceedings from the June 1997 conference focusing on the effectiveness of software engineering standards and their future, particularly in respect to critical systems. The 35 selected tutorials, technical papers, panel discussions and workshops deal with aspects of software safety and compliance, identifying software users, software |
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product measurement, software and systems engineering fundamental principles, and formal methods. The keynote address features cautionary advice to standards writers engaged with the limited claims that can be made for software dependability. Lacks an index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR. |
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