Heather F Roller
Biographic Data
| ID | 453970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather F Roller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather F |
| FAMILY NAME | Roller |
| SIGNATURE | ROLLER H F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colgate University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met
In this groundbreaking book, Jeffrey Erbig places autonomous Native peoples at the center of imperial border-making enterprises of the late eighteenth century. It would be difficult to overstate the methodological challenges of such a study. The theoretical and juridical debates around Iberian territorial possession are notoriously complex, and the related efforts on the ground to demarcate an imperial border—the collaborative mapping expeditions…
Contact Strategies
Around the year 1800, independent Native groups still effectively controlled about half the territory of the Americas. How did they maintain their political autonomy and territorial sovereignty, hundreds of years after the arrival of Europeans? In a study that spans the eighteenth to twentieth centuries and ranges across the vast interior of South America, Heather F. Roller examines this history of power and persistence from the vantage point of …
A Shared Toxic History
This essay is about the search for answers in family histories of illness, a search that may never end. It also explores how toxic exposure connects people-mothers and daughters, teachers and students-in unexpected ways. In the history classroom, the author finds new insights about environmental health in the shared experiences of course text authors, students, and families
The People of the River
This book excavates a deeper history of black political struggle in the Brazilian Amazon, beginning long before 1988. This year was when Article 68 of Brazil's new constitution provided a legal avenue for the descendants of maroons (i.e., runaway slaves) to obtain collective title to their lands. But black peasant communities, and particularly maroons and their descendants, have been making political claims and defending their rights to land and …
John M. Monteiro. Blacks of the Land
For about two decades, John M. Monteiro (1956–2013) was the leading scholar of indigenous history in Brazil, working to shape a field that is now flourishing. Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America—an elegant edition and translation of his 1994 book, Negros da Terra—brings a classic monograph to an English-speaking public for the first time. James Woodard and Barbara Weinstein,…
On the Verge of Total Extinction? From Guaikurú to Kadiwéu in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
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 of amateur ethnographers, in this case three authors who visited the Guaikurú and their descendants, the Kadiwéu, in western Brazil during the mid- to late nineteenth century. At first …
Amazonian Routes
This book reconstructs the world of eighteenth-century Amazonia to argue that indigenous mobility did not undermine settlement or community. In doing so, it revises longstanding views of native Amazonians as perpetual wanderers, lacking attachment to place and likely to flee at the slightest provocation. Instead, native Amazonians used traditional as well as new, colonial forms of spatial mobility to build enduring communities under the constrain…
Contact Strategies
Around the year 1800, independent Native groups still effectively controlled about half the territory of the Americas. How did they maintain their political autonomy and territorial sovereignty, hundreds of years after the arrival of Europeans? In a study that spans the eighteenth to twentieth centuries and ranges across the vast interior of South America, Heather F. Roller examines this history of power and persistence from the vantage point of …
On the Verge of Total Extinction? From Guaikurú to Kadiwéu in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
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 of amateur ethnographers, in this case three authors who visited the Guaikurú and their descendants, the Kadiwéu, in western Brazil during the mid- to late nineteenth century. At first …
Amazonian Routes
This book reconstructs the world of eighteenth-century Amazonia to argue that indigenous mobility did not undermine settlement or community. In doing so, it revises longstanding views of native Amazonians as perpetual wanderers, lacking attachment to place and likely to flee at the slightest provocation. Instead, native Amazonians used traditional as well as new, colonial forms of spatial mobility to build enduring communities under the constrain…
On the Verge of Total Extinction? From Guaikurú to Kadiwéu in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
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 of amateur ethnographers, in this case three authors who visited the Guaikurú and their descendants, the Kadiwéu, in western Brazil during the mid- to late nineteenth century. At first …
John M. Monteiro. Blacks of the Land
For about two decades, John M. Monteiro (1956–2013) was the leading scholar of indigenous history in Brazil, working to shape a field that is now flourishing. Blacks of the Land: Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America—an elegant edition and translation of his 1994 book, Negros da Terra—brings a classic monograph to an English-speaking public for the first time. James Woodard and Barbara Weinstein,…
A Shared Toxic History
This essay is about the search for answers in family histories of illness, a search that may never end. It also explores how toxic exposure connects people-mothers and daughters, teachers and students-in unexpected ways. In the history classroom, the author finds new insights about environmental health in the shared experiences of course text authors, students, and families
The People of the River
This book excavates a deeper history of black political struggle in the Brazilian Amazon, beginning long before 1988. This year was when Article 68 of Brazil's new constitution provided a legal avenue for the descendants of maroons (i.e., runaway slaves) to obtain collective title to their lands. But black peasant communities, and particularly maroons and their descendants, have been making political claims and defending their rights to land and …
Where Caciques and Mapmakers Met
In this groundbreaking book, Jeffrey Erbig places autonomous Native peoples at the center of imperial border-making enterprises of the late eighteenth century. It would be difficult to overstate the methodological challenges of such a study. The theoretical and juridical debates around Iberian territorial possession are notoriously complex, and the related efforts on the ground to demarcate an imperial border—the collaborative mapping expeditions…
Contact Strategies
Around the year 1800, independent Native groups still effectively controlled about half the territory of the Americas. How did they maintain their political autonomy and territorial sovereignty, hundreds of years after the arrival of Europeans? In a study that spans the eighteenth to twentieth centuries and ranges across the vast interior of South America, Heather F. Roller examines this history of power and persistence from the vantage point of …
History (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Ethnology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Indigenous (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (3 works)