Native Brazil
Subtitle: beyond the convert and the cannibal, 1500-1900
By: edited by Hal Langfur
Series: Diálogos; Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780826338419; 9780826338426; 9780826338402
Subjects: Missions; Government relations; Treatment of Indians; First contact with Europeans; History; Indians of South America; Colonization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : recovering Brazil's indigenous pasts / Hal Langfur; title: The Society of Jesus and the first aldeias of Brazil / Alida C. Metcalf; title: Land and economic resources of indigenous aldeias in Rio de Janeiro : conflicts and negotiations, seventeenth to nineteenth centuries / Maria Regina Celestino de Almeida; title: Colonial intrusions and the transformation of native society in the Amazon Valley, 1500-1800 / Neil L. Whitehead; title: The Amazonian native nobility in late-colonial Pará / Barbara A. Sommer; title: Indian autonomy and slavery in the forests and towns of colonial Minas Gerais / Hal Langfur and Maria Leônia Chaves de Resende; title: Catechism and capitalism : imperial indigenous policy on a Brazilian frontier, 1808-1845 / Judy Bieber; title: Catechism and captivity : Indian policy in Goiás, 1780-1889 / Mary Karasch; title: Indigenous resistance in central Brazil, 1770-1890 / Mary Karasch and David McCreery.