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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aMetcalf, Alida C.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aGo-betweens and the Colonization of Brazil :
_b1500–1600 /
_cAlida C. Metcalf.
264 1 _aAustin :
_bUniversity of Texas Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2006
300 _a1 online resource (391 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tA Note on Spelling and Citation --
_tAcknowledgments --
_t1. Go-betweens --
_t2. Encounter --
_t3. Possession --
_t4. Conversion --
_t5. Biology --
_t6. Slavery --
_t7. Resistance --
_t8. Power --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
_2star
520 _aDoña Marina (La Malinche) .Pocahontas .Sacagawea—their names live on in historical memory because these women bridged the indigenous American and European worlds, opening the way for the cultural encounters, collisions, and fusions that shaped the social and even physical landscape of the modern Americas. But these famous individuals were only a few of the many thousands of people who, intentionally or otherwise, served as "go-betweens" as Europeans explored and colonized the New World. 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022)
650 0 _aConquerors
_zBrazil
_xHistory
_y16th century.
650 0 _aConquerors
_zPortugal
_xHistory
_y16th century.
650 0 _aIndians of South America
_zBrazil
_xFirst contact with Europeans.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7560/709706
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292796225
856 4 2 _3Cover
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