LEADER 03647nam 22006374a 450 001 9910777518303321 005 20220418210005.0 010 $a0-292-79622-6 024 7 $a10.7560/709706 035 $a(CKB)1000000000461717 035 $a(OCoLC)605091664 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10217912 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000164039 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11167127 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000164039 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10117566 035 $a(PQKB)10821696 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2154 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443173 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10217912 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443173 035 $a(DE-B1597)587135 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292796225 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000461717 100 $a20050713d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGo-betweens and the colonization of Brazil, 1500-1600$b[electronic resource] /$fAlida C. Metcalf 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (392 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-70970-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [335]-362) and index. 327 $aGo-betweens -- Encounter -- Possession -- Conversion -- Biology -- Slavery -- Resistance -- Power. 330 $aDoņa 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 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. 606 $aIndians of South America$xFirst contact with other peoples$zBrazil 606 $aConquerors$zPortugal$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aConquerors$zBrazil$xHistory$y16th century 607 $aBrazil$xColonization 607 $aBrazil$xHistory$y16th century 615 0$aIndians of South America$xFirst contact with other peoples 615 0$aConquerors$xHistory 615 0$aConquerors$xHistory 676 $a981/.032 700 $aMetcalf$b Alida C.$f1954-$0704674 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777518303321 996 $aGo-betweens and the colonization of Brazil, 1500-1600$91353506 997 $aUNINA