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Author Roller, Heather F., author

Title Contact strategies : histories of native autonomy in Brazil / Heather F. Roller
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2021
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Description 1 online resource
Contents Facing empire -- Why embrace the Whites? -- Practices of peace -- A return to war is always possible -- Against extinction
Summary "Contact Strategies excavates the histories of independent Indians in the vast interior of Brazil, and sheds light on native peoples' many confrontations, negotiations, and tactical decisions to initiate contact with Brazilian society and continue to claim vast territories, centuries after the arrival of Europeans"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Brazil
Indigenous peoples
alliance
autonomy
borderlands
colonial legacies
colonialism
contact
intercultural trade
resistance
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 26, 2021)
Subject White people -- Brazil -- Relations with Indians -- History
Indians of South America -- Wars -- Brazil
Indians, Treatment of -- Brazil -- History
Autonomy.
HISTORY -- Latin America -- South America.
Autonomy
Ethnic relations
Indians of South America -- Wars
Indians, Treatment of
White people -- Relations with Indians
SUBJECT Brazil -- Ethnic relations -- History
Subject Brazil
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020044692
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