Native Brazil : beyond the convert and the cannibal, 1500-1900 /
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| Imprint: | Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2014] ©2014 |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 285 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Diálogos Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.) |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12644867 |
| Summary: | <p>The earliest European accounts of Brazil s indigenous inhabitants focused on the natives startling appearance and conduct especially their nakedness and cannibalistic rituals and on the process of converting them to clothed, docile Christian vassals. This volume contributes to the unfinished task of moving beyond such polarities and dispelling the stereotypes they fostered, which have impeded scholars ability to make sense of Brazil s rich indigenous past. <p>This volume is a significant contribution to understanding the ways Brazil s native peoples shaped their own histories. Incorporating the tools of anthropology, geography, cultural studies, and literary analysis, alongside those of history, the contributors revisit old sources and uncover new ones. They examine the Indians first encounters with Portuguese explorers and missionaries and pursue the consequences through four centuries. Some of the peoples they investigate were ultimately defeated and displaced by the implacable advance of settlement. Many individuals died from epidemics, frontier massacres, and forced labor. Hundreds of groups eventually disappeared as distinct entities. Yet many others found ways to prolong their independent existence or to enter colonial and later national society, making constrained but pivotal choices along the way." |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 285 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781306398879 1306398878 9780826338426 0826338429 9780826338419 0826338410 9780826338402 0826338402 |