Indian captivity in Spanish America : frontier narratives / Fernando Operé ; translated by Gustavo Pellón.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Operé, Fernando, 1946-

Standardized Title:

Historias de la frontera. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Indian captivities--Latin America.

Indian captivities.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 289 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.

Contents:

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and Florida captives in the sixteenth century

Malocas on the Araucanian frontier : the happy captivity of Francisco Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán

Captives in the Río de la Plata region

Accounts of captives in the Pampas and Patagonia

The northern frontier : from the Chichimecas to the Comanches

From Helena Valero to Napëyoma : the journey of a captive

Captives in literature

Epilogue.

Notes:

Translation of: Historias de la frontera.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-274) and index.

ISBN:

9780813925868

081392586X

9780813925875

0813925878

OCLC:

137324933