Contact strategies : histories of native autonomy in Brazil /

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 a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Roller, Heather F. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]
Subjects:	Whites > Brazil > Relations with Indians > History. Indians of South America > Wars > Brazil. Indians, Treatment of > Brazil > History. Autonomy. Brazil > Ethnic relations > History.

Table of Contents:

Facing empire
Why embrace the Whites?
Practices of peace
A return to war is always possible
Against extinction.