Amazonian routes : Indigenous mobility and colonial communities in northern Brazil /

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This text reconstructs the world of eighteenth-century Amazonia to argue that Indigenous mobility did not undermine settlement or community. In doing so, it revises longstanding views of native Amazonians as perpetual wanderers, lacking attachment to place and likely to flee at the slightest provoca...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Roller, Heather F. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.
Temas:
1700-1799
Indians of South America > Amazon River Region > History > 18th century.
Indians of South America > Brazil, North > History > 18th century.
Migration, Internal > Amazon River Region > History > 18th century.
Migration, Internal > Brazil, North > History > 18th century.
Village communities > Amazon River Region > History > 18th century.
Village communities > Brazil, North > History > 18th century.
Population geography > Amazon River Region > History > 18th century.
Population geography > Brazil, North > History > 18th century.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Indians of South America
Migration, Internal
Population geography
Village communities
Amazon River Region
North Brazil
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From missions to towns : Amazonian settlements in an era of reform
  • Forest collecting expeditions and the pursuit of opportunities in the sertão
  • Searching for new people
  • "The Indians of this town ebb and flow" : absentee movements within the colonial sphere
  • Defining Indians and vagrants
  • The struggle for autonomy in the early nineteenth century
  • Conclusion : mobile and rooted.

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