UID:
almafu_9960010610502883
Format:
1 online resource (xv, 342 pages) :
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illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
ISBN:
0-8047-9212-7
Content:
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 provocation.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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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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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8047-8708-5
Language:
English
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