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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.
Contents
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.
