Go-betweens and the Colonization of Brazil: 1500-1600

by Alida C. Metcalf

Book Overview

Do a Marina (La Malinche) ...Pocahontas ...Sacagawea-their names live on in historical memory because these women bridged the indigenous American and European worlds, opening the way for the cultural encounters, collisions, and fusions that shaped the social and even physical landscape of the modern Americas. But these famous individuals were only a few of the many thousands of people who, intentionally or otherwise, served as "go-betweens" as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292712766
• ISBN13: 9780292712768
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 391 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Interesting, insightful

Brazilian colonialism is unlike its sisters in other places. Unlike the Americas the natives were not exterminated or removed. Unlike Africa, race did not divide people in sexual relations. In short Brazil was a hybrid. It was a hybrid because of the all important 'go betweens' that this book examines, the priests, slaves and natives who lived together and worked together and produced off spring together. An interesting book. Seth J. Frantzman