The Tapuia of Northeastern Brazil in Dutch Sources (1628-1648)

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54363-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

Reihe: The Early Americas: History and Culture

This book presents the transcriptions and annotated translations of fifteen key historical documents concerning the Tapuia indigenous people written just before and during the Dutch occupation of northeastern Brazil. The selected documents vary widely in type, including letters, descriptions, reports, first-person declarations, diaries, and transcripts of interrogations, thereby showcasing different perspectives and audiences. Some of the documents were authored by European writers, while others register indigenous voices somewhat more directly in the form of interviews or declarations.

These texts provide important first-hand information about the Tapuia and other indigenous peoples during the Dutch conquest, revealing their cultural practices and knowledge while also detailing their strategic engagements with each other and with different European colonizers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bel, Martijn Van Den

Françozo, Mariana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Introduction

1 Before Meeting the Tapuia

2 The Tapuia Deal

3 Indirect Indigenous Rule and the Portuguese Revolt

4 Tapuia Life

Note on the Translation

1 Declaration of Gaspar Paraupaba (1628)

2 Description of Pernambuco or Declaration of Gaspar Paraupaba (1637)

3 Interrogation of Andries Tacoe (1631)

4 Memoir of Marcilliean (C. 1631)

5 Letter of Pedro Potij (C. 1631)

6 First Journal of Joris Garstman (1634)

7 Second Journal of Joris Garstman (1634)

8 Description by Gerrit Hulck (1635)

9 Description by Elias Herckmans (1639)

10 Description by Zacharias Wagener (1641)

11 Description by Gerardus Vossius (1641)

12 Description by Johannes de Laet (1644)

13 Journal of Jacob Rabbi (1648)

14 Description by Caspar van Baerle (1647)

15 Journal of Roulox Baro (1651)

Epilogue

Glossary

Bilbiography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Martijn M. van den Bel, Ph.D. (2015), Leiden University, is an archaeologist and excavates in French Guiana and the French Lesser Antilles. He is interested in encounters between Amerindians and Europeans during the seventeenth century.

Mariana Françozo, Ph.D. (2009), Unicamp, is an anthropologist and a historian. She is associate professor at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. She is the editor of Toward an Intercultural Natural History of Brazil: The Historia Naturalis Brasiliae Reconsidered (Routledge, 2023).