The forbidden lands : colonial identity, frontier violence, and the persistence of Brazil's eastern Indians, 1750-1830

The forbidden lands : colonial identity, frontier violence, and the persistence of Brazil's eastern Indians, 1750-1830 / Hal Langfur.

Author/creator	Langfur, Hal
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.
Description	xv, 408 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	Land settlement--Brazil --Minas Gerais --History. Violence--Brazil --Minas Gerais --History. Indians of South America--Brazil --Minas Gerais --History. Black people--Brazil --Minas Gerais --History. Brazil--Territorial expansion. Brazil--History --1763-1822. Brazil--History --Empire, 1822-1889. Minas Gerais (Brazil)--History. Brazil--Race relations.

Contents	Uncertain refuge : the shifting geography of a frontier in the making -- Ordered space, disorderly peoples : challenging Portugal's frontier policies -- In the eastern forests : territorializing colonial society -- The "useless people" : free persons of color and the racial geography of the frontier -- The assault on the eastern sertão -- Sources of conflict : the elusive evidence of Indian incorporation and resistance -- Cannibalism and other "abominable scenes" : frontier violence as cultural exchange -- War.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-396) and index.
LCCN	2005037517
ISBN	0804751803 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	9780804751803

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	F2534 .L325 2006	✔ Available	Place Hold