TY - BOOK AU - Karasch,Mary C. TI - Before Brasília: frontier life in central Brazil SN - 9780826357632 AV - F2651.G63 U1 - 981/.73 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Albuquerque PB - University of New Mexico Press KW - Frontier and pioneer life KW - Brazil KW - HISTORY KW - Latin America KW - South America KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Goiás (Brazil : State) KW - History KW - 19th century KW - 18th century KW - Tocantins (Brazil) KW - 20th century KW - 1763-1822 KW - Empire, 1822-1889 KW - Goiás (Brésil : État) KW - Histoire KW - 19e siècle KW - 18e siècle KW - Brésil KW - 1822-1889 KW - Goiás (State) KW - Tocantins KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: Contacts and Conquests; 1: Into the "Heart of Brazil": Landscapes of Contact and Decimation; 2: The Indigenous Nations of Central Brazil; 3: Bandeiras and Entradas: The Invaders of Central Brazil; 4: Indigenous Warfare and Peacemaking; PART TWO: Colonial Society: Whites, Pardos, and Blacks; 5: "Good Order": Structures of Empire; 6: The White Propertied Elites of the Captaincy of Goiás; 7: "Masters of the Dance": Enslaved Africans and Crioulos; PART THREE: Points of Contact and Culture Change8: People of the Holy Spirit: Christians and Their Sacred Spaces; 9: Shadows in the Night: Women and Gender Relations; 10: Defenders of the Conquest and Useful Vassals: The Free People of Color; CONCLUSION: Reflections on Frontiers/Borderlands of Central Brazil; APPENDIX A: Indigenous Nations of Central Brazil; APPENDIX B : Censuses; APPENDIX C: Colonial Churches and Lay Brotherhoods in the Captaincy of Goiás; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover N2 - Before Brasília offers an in-depth exploration of life in the captaincy of Goiás during the late colonial and early national period of Brazilian history UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1258764 ER -