{"product_id":"indigenous-alliance-making-histories-of-agency-in-colonial-lowland-south-america-9780816555024","title":"Indigenous Alliance Making: Histories of Agency in Colonial Lowland South America","description":"\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The contributors in \u003ci\u003eIndigenous Alliance Making\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e Contributors \u003cbr\u003e Marta Amoroso \u003cbr\u003e Elisa Frühauf Garcia \u003cbr\u003e Mark Harris \u003cbr\u003e Kris Lane \u003cbr\u003e Camila Loureiro Dias \u003cbr\u003e Cecilia McCallum \u003cbr\u003e Gary Van Valen \u003cbr\u003e Aparecida Vilaça \u003cbr\u003e James Andrew Whitaker \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Arizona Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51690649059602,"sku":"9780816555024","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2346ea62-7fea-4ad1-8b70-af4272ecbeb4.jpg?v=1761742743","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/indigenous-alliance-making-histories-of-agency-in-colonial-lowland-south-america-9780816555024","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}