Indigenous Alliance Making Histories of Agency in Colonial Lowland South America

Whitaker, James Andrew (Editor)/ Harris, Mark (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0816555907 / ISBN 13: 9780816555901

Published by Univ of Arizona Pr, 2025

216 pages. 9.01x6.01x0.00 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # x-0816555907

Synopsis:

During the colonial and postcolonial eras, local people in lowland South America experienced exploitation from outsiders. But as new kinds of societies emerged from engagements between outside and Indigenous communities, Indigenous Amazonians formed strategic alliances to defend livelihoods, territory, and symbolic values, as well as to curb exploitation, predation, and threats. The contributors in Indigenous Alliance Making bring together historical analyses with anthropological investigations to explore the organizational patterns, goals, and strategies through which Indigenous people have intentionally created various alliances, partnerships, and similar relations with outsiders in lowland South America. Emphasizing class, ethnicity, gender, and race, the chapters bring new dimensions to understanding a vital but understudied region. Through missions, war, and broader conflict, as well as marriage and kinship, local people aimed to maintain control even as personal and collective transformations unfolded. This volume explores the formation of diverse historical relations across regional societies within past and contemporary contexts and contributes to a growing historiographical turn among anthropologists and historians that foregrounds agency in past and present understandings of Indigenous peoples’ engagements with others in lowland South America. Contributors Marta Amoroso Elisa FrÜhauf Garcia Mark Harris Kris Lane Camila Loureiro Dias Cecilia McCallum Gary Van Valen Aparecida VilaÇa James Andrew Whitaker

About the Authors: James Andrew Whitaker is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Southern Mississippi. He is also an honorary research fellow at the University of St Andrews.

Mark Harris is a professor of historical anthropology at Monash University and an honorary professorial research fellow at the University of St Andrews. His research focuses on the Brazilian Amazon and what makes it a place of global significance.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Indigenous Alliance Making Histories of ...
Publisher: Univ of Arizona Pr
Publication Date: 2025
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Brand New