Table of Contents

• A Note on Spelling and Citation
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Go-betweens
• 2. Encounter
• 3. Possession
• 4. Conversion
• 5. Biology
• 6. Slavery
• 7. Resistance
• 8. Power
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

Promotional Information

An historically rich account of how "go-betweens" - individuals who could bridge indigenous and European cultures - helped shape Brazilian society in the sixteenth century

Promotional Information

An historically rich account of how "go-betweens" - individuals who could bridge indigenous and European cultures - helped shape Brazilian society in the sixteenth century

About the Author

Alida Metcalf is Harris Masterson, Jr. Professor of History at Rice University.

Reviews

"Based on a broad array of sources, including extensive archival research, this book presents a provocatively new interpretation of indigenous-European relations in Portuguese America, as they unfolded over the course of the sixteenth century... The topic is fascinating and the sources extremely rich and suggestive." --John Monteiro, Anthropology Department, UNICAMP, Brazil, and Visiting Professor of History, Harvard University