Mark Harris

The Making of Brazilian Amazonian Societies

A Study in Ethnographic and Spatial History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Amazonia presents the contemporary scholar with myriad challenges. What does it consist of, and what are its limits? In this interdisciplinary book, Mark Harris examines the formation of Brazilian Amazonian societies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, focusing predominantly on the Eastern Amazon, what is today the states of Pará and Amapá in Brazil. His aim is to demonstrate how the region emerged through the activities and movements of Indigenous societies with diverse languages, cultures, individuals of mixed heritage, and impoverished European and African people from various nations. Rarely are these approaches and people examined together, but this comprehensive history insightfully illustrates that the Brazilian Amazon consists of all these communities and their struggles and highlights the ways the Amazon has been defended through partnership and alliance across ethnic identities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2025
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9781009654067
• ISBN-10: 1009654063
• Artikelnr.: 75284307

Autorenporträt

Mark Harris is Professor and head of the School of Philosophical, Historical and Indigenous Studies at Monash University. He is also an honorary research fellow at the University of St Andrews. His book Life on the Amazon won the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs Prize, and Rebellion on the Amazon received an Honourable Mention for the Warren Dean Memorial Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Indigenous worlds on the Amazon river and the origins of
the European sphere in the sixteenth century; 2. Colonial space and fluvial
patterns: invaded territories of the eastern Amazon in the early
seventeenth century; 3. Coming out the forests? Indigenous territories in
the lower Xingu and Tocantins in the mid seventeenth century; 4. The making
of the Sertão: indigenous regional networks in the late seventeenth
century; 5. Riverine village and indigenous regional networks in the early
eighteenth century; 6. Family, marriage and place in the riverine
communities near the lower Amazon river; 7. 'In the forest we don't accept
the grace of God': the spatialisation of Amazonian shamanism; Conclusion.
The Sertão made Belém.