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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Langfur, Hal.

Series:

Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)

Diálogos Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of South America--Brazil--History.

Indians of South America.

Indians, Treatment of--Brazil--History.

Indians, Treatment of.

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.

Brazil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780826338426

0826338429

OCLC:

869521852