{"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 • Author(s): James Andrew Whitaker | Mark Harris\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural \u0026amp; Social\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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 Fr�hauf 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 Vila�a \u003cbr\u003e James Andrew Whitaker \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46415835988119,"sku":"9780816555024","price":3848.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780816555024.webp?v=1769061122","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/indigenous-alliance-making-histories-of-agency-in-colonial-lowland-south-america-9780816555024","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}