Indigenous Mobility and Colonial Communities in Northern Brazil
by
Heather F. Roller
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
This book 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....