Go-betweens and the Colonization of Brazil: 1500–1600
Autor Alida C. Metcalfen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 ian 2006
In this innovative history, Alida Metcalf thoroughly investigates the many roles played by go-betweens in the colonization of sixteenth-century Brazil. She finds that many individuals created physical links among Europe, Africa, and Brazil—explorers, traders, settlers, and slaves circulated goods, plants, animals, and diseases. Intercultural liaisons produced mixed-race children. At the cultural level, Jesuit priests and African slaves infused native Brazilian traditions with their own religious practices, while translators became influential go-betweens, negotiating the terms of trade, interaction, and exchange. Most powerful of all, as Metcalf shows, were those go-betweens who interpreted or represented new lands and peoples through writings, maps, religion, and the oral tradition. Metcalf's convincing demonstration that colonization is always mediated by third parties has relevance far beyond the Brazilian case, even as it opens a revealing new window on the first century of Brazilian history.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292712768
ISBN-10: 0292712766
Pagini: 391
Ilustrații: 20 figures, 11 maps, 2 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:annotated ed.
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
ISBN-10: 0292712766
Pagini: 391
Ilustrații: 20 figures, 11 maps, 2 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:annotated ed.
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Notă biografică
Alida Metcalf is Harris Masterson, Jr. Professor of History at Rice University.
Cuprins
- A Note on Spelling and Citation
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Go-betweens
- 2. Encounter
- 3. Possession
- 4. Conversion
- 5. Biology
- 6. Slavery
- 7. Resistance
- 8. Power
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Descriere
A historically rich account of how “go-betweens”--individuals who could bridge indigenous and European cultures--helped shape Brazilian society in the sixteenth century.