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

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

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 285 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Diálogos
Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary This volume is a significant contribution to understanding the ways Brazil's native peoples shaped their own histories.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Language English.
Subject Indians of South America -- Brazil -- History.
Indians of South America.
Brazil.
History.
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 -- First contact with other peoples.
Indians of South America -- Brazil -- Government relations.
Brazil -- Colonization.
Indians of South America -- Missions.
Colonization.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
Indians of South America -- First contact with other peoples.
Indians of South America -- Government relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Langfur, Hal, author, editor.
Other Form: Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe Native Brazil . Beyond the convert and the cannibal, 1500-1900
ISBN 9781306398879 (e-book)
1306398878 (e-book)
9780826338426 (electronic)
0826338429 (electronic)
9780826338419 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0826338410 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780826338402 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0826338402 (cloth ; alkaline paper)