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This book presents the transcriptions and annotated translations of fifteen key historical documents concerning the Tapuia indigenous people written just before and during the Dutch occupation of northeastern Brazil. The selected documents vary widely in type, including letters, descriptions, reports, first-person declarations, diaries, and transcripts of interrogations, thereby showcasing different perspectives and audiences. Some of the documents were authored by European writers, while others register indigenous voices somewhat more directly in the form of interviews or declarations.
These texts provide important first-hand information about the Tapuia and other indigenous peoples during the Dutch conquest, revealing their cultural practices and knowledge while also detailing their strategic engagements with each other and with different European colonizers.
These texts provide important first-hand information about the Tapuia and other indigenous peoples during the Dutch conquest, revealing their cultural practices and knowledge while also detailing their strategic engagements with each other and with different European colonizers.
Price: $156.00
Pages: 292
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
28 September 2023
ISBN: 9789004543638
Format: Hardcover
Martijn M. van den Bel, Ph.D. (2015), Leiden University, is an archaeologist and excavates in French Guiana and the French Lesser Antilles. He is interested in encounters between Amerindians and Europeans during the seventeenth century.
Mariana Françozo, Ph.D. (2009), Unicamp, is an anthropologist and a historian. She is associate professor at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. She is the editor of Toward an Intercultural Natural History of Brazil: The Historia Naturalis Brasiliae Reconsidered (Routledge, 2023).
Mariana Françozo, Ph.D. (2009), Unicamp, is an anthropologist and a historian. She is associate professor at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. She is the editor of Toward an Intercultural Natural History of Brazil: The Historia Naturalis Brasiliae Reconsidered (Routledge, 2023).