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The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil’s Eastern Indians, 1750-1830 (Book)Title: The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil’s Eastern Indians, 1750-1830
Author: Hal Langfur
Abstract: "The Forbidden Lands" concerns a pivotal but unexamined surge in frontier violence that engulfed the eastern forests of eighteenth-century Brazil's most populous region, Minas Gerais. Focusing on social, cultural, and racial relations, it challenges standard depictions of the occupation of Portuguese America's vast interior, while situating its frontier history in the broader context of the Americas and the Atlantic world. The author argues that the key to understanding the colony's internal consolidation - ignored and misconstrued by scholars fixed on coastal events and export-led development - resides in the incompatible ways in which Luso-Brazilians, Afro-Brazilians, and seminomadic indigenous peoples accused of cannibalism sought to territorialize their distinctive societies. He demonstrates that cultural conflict on the frontier was a defining characteristic of Brazil's transition from colony to independent nation and a fundamental consequence of its relationship to a wider world. The study moves Brazil to a prominent place in our understanding of the hemispheric sweep of internal colonization in the Americas.
Abstract: The Forbidden Lands concerns a pivotal but unexamined surge in frontier violence that engulfed the eastern forests of eighteenth-century Brazil's most populous region, Minas Gerais. Focusing on social, cultural, and racial relations, it challenges standard depictions of the occupation of Portuguese America's vast interior, while situating its frontier history in the broader context of the Americas and the Atlantic world. The author argues that the key to understanding the colony's internal consolidation, ignored and misconstrued by scholars fixed on coastal events and export-led development, resides in the incompatible ways in which Luso-Brazilians, Afro-Brazilians, and seminomadic indigenous peoples accused of cannibalism sought to territorialize their distinctive societies. He demonstrates that cultural conflict on the frontier was a defining characteristic of Brazil's transition from colony to independent nation and a fundamental consequence of its relationship to a wider world. The study moves Brazil to a prominent place in our understanding of the hemispheric sweep of internal colonization in the Americas.
Essays based on material in this book have won two prizes for scholarly articles: the 2006 CLAH prize and the 2005 Tibesar Prize
(From inside flap.)
Year: 2006
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2006. Paperback edition, 2009.
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-0804751803
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes
Prizes
“Honorable Mention” for the Warren Dean Prize for the best book on Brazilian history
Date: 1/1/2007
Organization: Conference on Latin American History
Abstract: Awarded semiannually
“Honorable Mention” for the Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize for best book in the field of ethnohistory
Date: 1/1/2007
Organization: American Society for Ethnohistory
The Blood of the Dragon: Alchemy and Natural History in Nicolás Monardes's Historia Medicinal (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: The Blood of the Dragon: Alchemy and Natural History in Nicolás Monardes's Historia Medicinal
Author: Ralph Bauer
Abstract: The paper comes from his book project, “The Alchemy of Conquest: Prophecy, Discovery and the Secrets of the New World.”
Date: 10/04/2013
Primary URL:
http://rll.drupalgardens.com/content/ralph-bauer-gives-talk-campusPrimary URL Description: Online announcement of the talk for the SUNY campus.
Conference Name: Early Modern Research Workshop of the Humanities Institute, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Propaganda and Political Legitimacy in Early Eighteenth-Century Mexico (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Propaganda and Political Legitimacy in Early Eighteenth-Century Mexico
Author: Frances L. Ramos
Abstract: In 1711, toward the end of the decade-long War of the Spanish Succession, the cathedral chapter of the archdiocese of Mexico published an impassioned account of its many displays of loyalty on behalf of Philip V. After almost two centuries of Habsburg rule, Philip V and his advisors were under no illusions that Spanish subjects would transfer their loyalty over easily from Carlos II and, for this reason, ordered constant public demonstrations of loyalty throughout the course of the war. Mexico City’s cathedral chapter responded accordingly and opened its account with Psalm 62, verse 12: “But the king shall rejoice in God, all they shall be praised that swear by him: because the mouth is stopped of them that speak wicked things.”
Using cathedral chapter and municipal council minutes and a large body of published sermons, this paper focuses on the secular and religious elite of Mexico City’s attempts to stop the utterance of “wicked things” during the War of the Spanish Succession. Loyalty to the Habsburg house would prove hard to combat, as evidenced by several people arrested in Mexico for supposedly rooting for the Austrian Alliance. In order to combat disloyalty, the municipal council, cathedral chapter, and all of the city’s convents organized a variety of public ceremonies in support of the Bourbon house, including masses and festivities honoring the birth of crown prince Louis I, funerary honors for fallen soldiers, and, finally, masses of thanksgiving marking Spain’s imminent victory in 1711. Taken together, these commemorations helped to cast the Bourbon king as Spain’s “savior,” a trope that would continue throughout the eighteenth century and shapes the historiography of the early modern Spanish Empire to this day.
Date: 01/03/2014
Primary URL:
https://aha.confex.com/aha/2014/webprogram/Paper14307.htmlPrimary URL Description: Conference program listing
Conference Name: American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2-5, 2014
Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas (Book)Title: Native Diasporas: Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas
Editor: Gregory D. Smithers
Editor: Brooke N. Newman
Abstract: The arrival of European settlers in the Americas disrupted indigenous lifeways, and the effects of colonialism shattered Native communities. Forced migration and human trafficking created a diaspora of cultures, languages, and people. Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman have gathered the work of leading scholars, including Bill Anthes, Duane Champagne, Daniel Cobb, Donald Fixico, and Joy Porter, among others, in examining an expansive range of Native peoples and the extent of their influences through reaggregation. These diverse and wide-ranging essays uncover indigenous understandings of self-identification, community, and culture through the speeches, cultural products, intimate relations, and political and legal practices of Native peoples.
Native Diasporas explores how indigenous peoples forged a sense of identity and community amid the changes wrought by European colonialism in the Caribbean, the Pacific Islands, and the mainland Americas from the seventeenth through the twentieth century. Broad in scope and groundbreaking in the topics it explores, this volume presents fresh insights from scholars devoted to understanding Native American identity in meaningful and methodologically innovative ways.
Year: 2014
Primary URL:
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/861955708Primary URL Description: Worldcat record
Secondary URL:
http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Native-Diasporas,675889.aspxSecondary URL Description: Publisher's web page
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 978-0-8032-336
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes
Language and Conquest: Tupi-Guarani Expansion in the European Colonization of Brazil and Amazonia (Book Section)Title: Language and Conquest: Tupi-Guarani Expansion in the European Colonization of Brazil and Amazonia
Author: M. Kittiya Lee
Editor: Salikoko S. Mufwene
Abstract: This book is about various linguistic aspects and consequences of the effective colonization of Latin America by Portugal and Spain since the dawn of the 16th century. It is about how Portuguese and Spanish (then known only as Castilian) have both been influenced by their contacts with indigenous and other languages in their Iberian colonies, as well as how the indigenous languages in particular have also been affected by the colonial languages. The book provides novel perspectives onto how the European colonists first communicated with the Natives, onto the role played by the “factors,” missionaries, Mestizos, and Pardos as interpreters, and onto why one should not assume that jargons or pidgins emerged of necessity out of the initial inter-group contacts. Insights are likewise provided about the gradual ways in which Portuguese and Spanish spread, about how some major indigenous languages (such as Quechua and Tupinamba´) at first benefited from the European colonization and from their adoption by missionaries as lingua francas for proselytizing, as well as about why some Native American languages are being threatened only now or don't appear to be (seriously) endangered yet. Throughout the volume, one has to ask who have been the actual agents and/or drivers of the changes that have affected both indigenous and initially exogenous languages, positively or negatively, in Latin America. And what are the relevant ecological factors that have triggered or simply borne on these evolutions? The subject of African substrate influence is also dealt with, alongside that of Italian adstrate influence on Argentine Spanish. (abstract is on complete book)
Year: 2014
Primary URL:
http://www.worldcat.org/title/iberian-imperialism-and-language-evolution-in-latin-america/oclc/5692733543&referer=brief_resultsPrimary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Secondary URL:
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo17840969.htmlSecondary URL Description: Publisher's website
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Book Title: Iberian Imperialism and Language Evolution in Latin America
ISBN: 9780226126173
Spectacular Wealth: The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns (Book)Title: Spectacular Wealth: The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns
Author: Lisa Voigt
Abstract: Bridging print culture and performance, Spectacular Wealth draws on eighteenth-century festival accounts to explore how colonial residents of the silver-mining town of Potosí, in the viceroyalty of Peru, and the gold-mining region of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, created rich festive cultures that refuted European allegations of barbarism and greed. In her examination of the festive participation of the towns’ diverse inhabitants, including those whose forced or slave labor produced the colonies’ mineral wealth, Lisa Voigt shows how Amerindians, Afro-descendants, Europeans, and creoles displayed their social capital and cultural practices in spectacular performances.
Tracing the multiple meanings and messages of civic festivals and religious feast days alike, Spectacular Wealth highlights the conflicting agendas at work in the organization, performance, and publication of festivals. Celebrants and writers in mining boomtowns presented themselves as far more than tributaries yielding mineral wealth to the Spanish and Portuguese empires, using festivals to redefine their reputations and to celebrate their cultural, spiritual, and intellectual wealth.
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
http://www.worldcat.org/title/spectacular-wealth-the-festivals-of-colonial-south-american-mining-towns/oclc/934705730&referer=brief_resultsPublisher: University of Texas Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781477310977
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes
Touching on Communication: Visual and Textual Representations of Touch as Friendship in Early Colonial Encounters (Book Section)Title: Touching on Communication: Visual and Textual Representations of Touch as Friendship in Early Colonial Encounters
Author: Celine Carayon
Editor: Daniela Hacke
Editor: Paul Musselwhite
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2018
Publisher: Brill
Book Title: Empire of the Senses: Sensory Practices of Colonialism in Early America
Cannibalism and the Body Politic: Independent Indians in the Era of Brazilian Independence (Article)Title: Cannibalism and the Body Politic: Independent Indians in the Era of Brazilian Independence
Author: Harold Langfur
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2018
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Ethnohistory LXV no 4
The European Seaborne Empires: on the Thirty Years' War to the Age of Revolutions (Book)Title: The European Seaborne Empires: on the Thirty Years' War to the Age of Revolutions
Author: Gabriel Paquette
Abstract: In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette focuses on the evolution of the Spanish, Portuguese, English, French, and Dutch overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He draws on recent advances in the field to examine their development, from efficacious forms of governance to coercive violence. Beginning with a narrative overview of imperial expansion that incorporates recent critiques of older scholarly approaches, Paquette then analyzes the significance of these empires, including their political, economic, and social consequences and legacies. He makes the multifaceted history of Europe’s globe-spanning empires in this crucial period accessible to new readers.
Year: 2019
Publisher: Yale University Press
Type: Single author monograph
Copy sent to NEH?: No
Idolizing Mary: Maya-Catholic Icons in Colonial Yucatán (Book)Title: Idolizing Mary: Maya-Catholic Icons in Colonial Yucatán
Author: Amara Solari
Abstract: In the summer of 1648, yellow fever appeared for the first time on the Yucatán Peninsula, claiming the lives of roughly one-third of the population. To combat this epidemic, Spanish colonial authorities carried a miracle-working Marian icon in procession from Itzmal to the capital city of Mérida and back again as a means of invoking divine intercession. Idolizing Mary uses this event and this icon to open a discussion about the early and profound indigenous veneration of the Virgin Mary.
Amara Solari argues that particular Marian icons, such as the Virgin of Itzmal, embodied an ideal suite of precontact numinous qualities, which Maya neophytes reframed for their community’s religious needs. Examining prints, paintings, and early modern writings about the Virgin of Itzmal, Solari takes up various topics that contributed to the formation of Yucatán Catholicism—such as indigenous Maya notions of sacrality, ritual purity, and the formal qualities of offering vessels—and demonstrates how these aligned with the Virgin of Itzmal in such a way that the icon came to be viewed by the native populations as a deity of a new world order.
Year: 2019
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Type: Single author monograph
Copy sent to NEH?: No