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... anthropology), and other allied disciplines. Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil. By Jonathan W. Warren. (Durham, nc: Duke University Press, 2001. xx + 363 pp...

... of Oklahoma Press. Could This Be Heaven or Could This Be Hell? Reconsidering the Myth of Racial Democracy in Brazil Hal Langfur, State University of New York, Buffalo The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864–1945. By Peter M. Beattie. (Durham, NC: Duke...

... reveals how Brazil used the binational Itaipu agreement to resolve century-old border conflicts with Paraguay and improve its international image. Yet, as chapters 2 and 3 demonstrate, a sizable Justice and Land Movement (MJT) emerged through the slow relaxation of political repression to challenge...

...James P. Woodard Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil . By Yuko Miki . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . xix+292 pp., introduction, map, bibliography, index. £75.00 cloth.) Copyright 2019 by American Society...

...Heather F. Roller Abstract This article seeks to move beyond simple narratives of decline and disappearance in the history of Brazil’s indigenous peoples during the nineteenth century. To do so, it examines the very sources that perpetuated the idea that Indians were vanishing: the writings...

...Hal Langfur Rejecting the conventional presumption that violent indigenous resistance to colonization had become all but ineffectual by the late colonial period in Portuguese America, this article uncovers ample archival evidence of successful raiding and other military maneuvers by Brazil's...

...James E. Wadsworth Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil. By Elizabeth W. Kiddy. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. xvi + 287 pp., abbreviations, illustrations, maps, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth.) American Society...

...M. Kittiya Lee Go-Betweens and the Colonization of Brazil, 1500-1600. By Alida C. Metcalf. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. xiv + 375 pp., notes on spelling and citation, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth, $22.95 paper.) American Society for Ethnohistory...

... Book Reviews Political Struggle, Ideology, and State Building: Pernambuco and the Con- struction of Brazil, 1817–1850. By Jeffrey C. Mosher. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. ix + 344 pp., introduction, maps, bibliography, index. $50.00 cloth.) James E. Wadsworth, Stonehill College...

...Lesley J. F. Green; David R. Green Using data collected during ethnographic fieldwork in the Palikur lands known as Arukwa along the Rio Urucauá in the Área Indígena do Uaçá, in Amapá, Brazil, we seek to expand current understandings of Arawakan oral forms of mapping that involve the listing...

...M. Kittiya Lee The Inconstancy of the Indian Soul: The Encounter of Catholics and Cannibals in Sixteenth-Century Brazil . By de Castro Eduardo Viveiros . Translated by Morton Gregory Duff . ( Chicago : Prickly Paradigm , 2011 . i + 104 pp. +iii, translator's note, acknowledgments...

...Eve E. Buckley Book Reviews 213 The Vigorous Core of Our Nationality: Race and Regional Identity in Northeastern Brazil. By Stanley E. Blake. (Pittsburgh: University of Pitts- burgh Press, 2011. xii + 315 pp., preface, introduction, notes...

..., and the Spoken Word in the Nineteenth-Century­ Transatlantic Slave Trade to Brazil and Cuba Dale T. Graden, University of Idaho Abstract. Interpreters and translators played a central role in the transatlantic slave trade in the nineteenth century. Some helped traffickers. Others...

...Marshall C. Eakin By Thomas E. Skidmore. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999). xiv + 254 pp., introduction, maps, graphs, tables, bibliography, index. $.) 2001 Burns, E. Bradford 1993 A History of Brazil . 3d ed. New York: Columbia University Press. Poppino, Rollie E. 1973...

...- tory of strong economic and political ties to, as well as military domina- tion by, the United States. As interesting as this study is, it really does not throw a great deal of light upon the African Diaspora in Brazil, Cuba, Haiti...

...Manuella Meyer Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of Africa Decolonization, 1950–1980 . By Dávila Jerry . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2010 . xi + 312 pp., introduction, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index . $84.95 cloth.) Copyright 2011 by American Society...

...Judy Bieber Abstract This article analyzes the evolution of ethnographic texts written about Jê-speaking peoples of the interior of Minas Gerais, Brazil, from the 1760s through the 1830s. It interprets both the timing and content of these sources with reference to the emergence of Enlightenment...

...Nancy P. Appelbaum The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil . By Weinstein Barbara . ( Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2016 . xii+458 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index . $29.95 paper, $104.95 cloth...

...Christopher Schmidt-Nowara Disease, Resistance, and Lies: The Demise of the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Brazil and Cuba . By Graden Dale T. . ( Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2014 . x + 291 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, appendix, index . $35.00 paper...