Hal Langfur
Biographic Data
| ID | 477434 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hal Langfur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hal |
| FAMILY NAME | Langfur |
| SIGNATURE | LANGFUR H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2544-521X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Chapter 9 Ethnological Misadventures
Adrift on an Inland Sea: Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian Backlands
From 1750 until Brazil won its independence in 1822, the Portuguese crown sought to extend imperial control over the colony's immense, sea-like interior and exploit its gold and diamond deposits using enslaved labor. Carrying orders from Lisbon into the Brazilian backlands, elite vassals, soldiers, and scientific experts charged with exploring multiple frontier zones and establishing royal authority conducted themselves in ways that proved diffic…
Informantes nativos e os limites do domínio português no Brasil colonial tardio
Ao longo de sua história colonial, grande parte do território escassamente povoado da América portuguesa não foi completamente colonizado, principalmente a província de indígenas autônomos e semiautônomos. Em uma mudança de política após 1750, cujas implicações permanecem mal compreendidas, a Coroa portuguesa intensificou os esforços para controlar as muitas fronteiras internas do Brasil. Este artigo foca em uma dessas regiões, as serras íngremes…
Race and Violence in Portuguese America
This chapter examines the history of racial violence in Portuguese America as a transatlantic coercive pedagogy. It considers the ideas and methods refined by secular and ecclesiastical authorities to teach peoples of indigenous and African descent, as well as white settlers, about the parameters governing the permissible use of force. Concentrating on the enslavement of Indians and blacks, it examines how colonisers came to accept violence organ…
Native Informants and the Limits of Portuguese Dominion in Late-Colonial Brazil
Throughout its colonial history, much of Portuguese America’s sparsely populated territory remained incompletely colonized, the province of autonomous and semiautonomous Indians. In a policy shift after 1750, the implications of which remain poorly understood, the Portuguese Crown intensified efforts to control Brazil’s many inland frontiers. This chapter focuses on one of these regions, the rugged mountains separating the captaincies of Rio de J…
Cannibalism and the Body Politic: Independent Indians in the Era of Brazilian Independence
Concentrating on the first two decades of the nineteenth century, this article explores the limitations of state-directed efforts to incorporate colonial Brazil's autonomous native peoples, especially those known as the Botocudo. Significant discord divided state actors charged with implementing plans to transform into loyal subjects these mobile hunters and foragers, who inhabited a forested expanse separating the colony's primary inland mining …
Canibalismo e a legitimidade da guerra justa na época da Independência
No início do século XIX, os esforços do Estado português para dominar os povos indígenas independentes se concentraram na Mata Atlântica que ligava o leste de Minas Gerais ao litoral. O presente artigo atribui aos nativos a contenção das tendências mais violentas desse projeto, depois que a Coroa portuguesa lhes declarou guerra em 1808. Acusados de canibalismo, os índios Botocudo, entre outros, enfrentaram o extermínio. Depois de muitos anos, con…
Frontier/ Fronteira: A Transnational Reframing of Brazil's Inland Colonization
The following essay examines Portuguese and Brazilian understandings of the frontier as a term and concept applicable to Brazil's colonial history. It argues that Brazilian scholars often rejected the frontier as an analytical concept because of perceived excesses in its application to U.S. history. These reservations proved prescient, as their North American colleagues would come to share many of the same objections. In pushing the idea aside, h…
Jane M. Rausch. Territorial Rule in Colombia and the Transformation of the Llanos Orientales
Journal Article Jane M. Rausch. Territorial Rule in Colombia and the Transformation of the Llanos Orientales. Get access Jane M. Rausch. Territorial Rule in Colombia and the Transformation of the Llanos Orientales. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013. Pp. x, 186. $69.95. Hal Langfur Hal Langfur University at Buffalo (SUNY) [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Histori…
Reflections on Brazil and Life as a Historian: An Interview with Richard Graham
Richard Graham is one of a handful of historians who shaped the field of Latin American studies in the United States. Graham taught for many years at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor of History Emeritus. At Texas he directed more than 20 doctoral dissertations and served as associate editor and then editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review from 1971 to 1975. Graham is the auth…
Minas Gerais indígena: A resistência dos índios nos sertões e nas vilas de El-Rei
O artigo demonstra a atuação dos índios como importantes agentes sociais na formação sociocultural de Minas Gerais: evidencia a presença de populações indígenas de diversas procedências étnicas nos sertões e nas vilas de Minas Gerais, durante todo o período colonial. Trata da resistência dos índios nos sertões do leste, enfatizando os enfrentamentos com os posseiros e com as expedições de conquista. Aborda ainda a luta dos índios incorporados à s…
Go-betweens and the Colonization of Brazil, 1500-1600
Alida Metcalf offers an important revisionist interpretation in this highly readable study of Portugal’s struggle to found a New World colony. The book begins and ends with an anecdote about Margarida, an Indian woman who helped Bahian plantation owners subdue members of her own ethnic group, the aggressive Aimoré. A baptized resident of a prominent settler’s estate, Margarida persuaded her kinsmen to abandon their violent resistance and enter co…
The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil’s Eastern Indians, 1750-1830
The Forbidden Lands concerns a pivotal but unexamined surge in frontier violence that engulfed the eastern forests of eighteenth-century Brazil's most populous region, Minas Gerais. Focusing on social, cultural, and racial relations, it challenges standard depictions of the occupation of Portuguese America's vast interior, while situating its frontier history in the broader context of the Americas and the Atlantic world. The author argues that th…
Could This Be Heaven or Could This Be Hell? Reconsidering the Myth of Racial Democracy in Brazil
Review Article| July 01 2006 Could This Be Heaven or Could This Be Hell? Reconsidering the Myth of Racial Democracy in Brazil Hal Langfur Hal Langfur Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (3): 603–613. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-007 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Hal Langfur; Could This Be Heaven or Could This Be Hell? Reconsid…
The Return of the Bandeira: Economic Calamity, Historical Memory, and Armed Expeditions to the Sertão in Minas Gerais, 1750-1808
Historians of colonial Brazil have conventionally located the conclusion of the great era of bandeira -led conquest somewhere near the end of the seventeenth century. The onset of the colony's gold cycle, corresponding with a series of major inland mineral strikes, reoriented those most actively engaged in the bandeira enterprise. Concentrated in the southern coastal captaincy of São Vicente, later, São Paulo, these wilderness adventurers had exp…
Moved by Terror: Frontier Violence as Cultural Exchange in Late-Colonial Brazil
Rejecting the conventional presumption that violent indigenous resistance to colonization had become all but ineffectual by the late colonial period in Portuguese America, this article uncovers ample archival evidence of successful raiding and other military maneuvers by Brazil's eastern Indians,especially the Botocudo and the Puri. By carefully examining the comportment of both colonizers and colonized, it elucidates how each employed various fo…
The Guaraní under Spanish Rule in the Río de la Plata
Book Review| January 01 2005 The Guaraní under Spanish Rule in the Río de la Plata By Barbara Ganson. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. xii +290 pp., introduction, maps and figures, appendices, glossary, notes,bibliography, index. $65.00 cloth.) Hal Langfur Hal Langfur Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (1): 216–218. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-52-1-216 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sh…
Uncertain Refuge: Frontier Formation and the Origins of the Botocudo War in Late Colonial Brazil
The major gold and diamond strikes of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries produced an unprecedented economic expansion, a complex urban society, and a rich Baroque culture in the inland region of southeastern Brazil that came to be called Minas Gerais. The mining windfall transformed Portuguese America and the transatlantic commerce that linked it to Europe and Africa. By the time the Portuguese crown fully acknowledged these chan…
An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians; The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana
Book Review| July 01 2001 An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians; The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana By Sir Walter Ralegh. Edited by Neil L. Whitehead. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. viii + 252 pp., preface, introduction, maps,illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. $37.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.)By Fray Ramón Pané. Edited by José Juan Arrom. Translated by Susan C. Griswold. (Durham, dc: Duke Un…
Myths of Pacification: Brazilian Frontier Settlement and the Subjugation of the Bororo Indians
Journal Article Myths of Pacification: Brazilian Frontier Settlement and the Subjugation of the Bororo Indians Get access Hal Langfur Hal Langfur University of Texas, Department of HistoryAustin, TX 78712 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 4, Summer 1999, Pages 879–905, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.4.879 Published: 01 July 1999
The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil’s Eastern Indians, 1750-1830
The Forbidden Lands concerns a pivotal but unexamined surge in frontier violence that engulfed the eastern forests of eighteenth-century Brazil's most populous region, Minas Gerais. Focusing on social, cultural, and racial relations, it challenges standard depictions of the occupation of Portuguese America's vast interior, while situating its frontier history in the broader context of the Americas and the Atlantic world. The author argues that th…
Uncertain Refuge: Frontier Formation and the Origins of the Botocudo War in Late Colonial Brazil
The major gold and diamond strikes of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries produced an unprecedented economic expansion, a complex urban society, and a rich Baroque culture in the inland region of southeastern Brazil that came to be called Minas Gerais. The mining windfall transformed Portuguese America and the transatlantic commerce that linked it to Europe and Africa. By the time the Portuguese crown fully acknowledged these chan…
Minas Gerais indígena: A resistência dos índios nos sertões e nas vilas de El-Rei
O artigo demonstra a atuação dos índios como importantes agentes sociais na formação sociocultural de Minas Gerais: evidencia a presença de populações indígenas de diversas procedências étnicas nos sertões e nas vilas de Minas Gerais, durante todo o período colonial. Trata da resistência dos índios nos sertões do leste, enfatizando os enfrentamentos com os posseiros e com as expedições de conquista. Aborda ainda a luta dos índios incorporados à s…
Frontier/ Fronteira: A Transnational Reframing of Brazil's Inland Colonization
The following essay examines Portuguese and Brazilian understandings of the frontier as a term and concept applicable to Brazil's colonial history. It argues that Brazilian scholars often rejected the frontier as an analytical concept because of perceived excesses in its application to U.S. history. These reservations proved prescient, as their North American colleagues would come to share many of the same objections. In pushing the idea aside, h…
Myths of Pacification: Brazilian Frontier Settlement and the Subjugation of the Bororo Indians
Journal Article Myths of Pacification: Brazilian Frontier Settlement and the Subjugation of the Bororo Indians Get access Hal Langfur Hal Langfur University of Texas, Department of HistoryAustin, TX 78712 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 4, Summer 1999, Pages 879–905, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.4.879 Published: 01 July 1999
The Return of the Bandeira: Economic Calamity, Historical Memory, and Armed Expeditions to the Sertão in Minas Gerais, 1750-1808
Historians of colonial Brazil have conventionally located the conclusion of the great era of bandeira -led conquest somewhere near the end of the seventeenth century. The onset of the colony's gold cycle, corresponding with a series of major inland mineral strikes, reoriented those most actively engaged in the bandeira enterprise. Concentrated in the southern coastal captaincy of São Vicente, later, São Paulo, these wilderness adventurers had exp…
Moved by Terror: Frontier Violence as Cultural Exchange in Late-Colonial Brazil
Rejecting the conventional presumption that violent indigenous resistance to colonization had become all but ineffectual by the late colonial period in Portuguese America, this article uncovers ample archival evidence of successful raiding and other military maneuvers by Brazil's eastern Indians,especially the Botocudo and the Puri. By carefully examining the comportment of both colonizers and colonized, it elucidates how each employed various fo…
Native Informants and the Limits of Portuguese Dominion in Late-Colonial Brazil
Throughout its colonial history, much of Portuguese America’s sparsely populated territory remained incompletely colonized, the province of autonomous and semiautonomous Indians. In a policy shift after 1750, the implications of which remain poorly understood, the Portuguese Crown intensified efforts to control Brazil’s many inland frontiers. This chapter focuses on one of these regions, the rugged mountains separating the captaincies of Rio de J…
Cannibalism and the Body Politic: Independent Indians in the Era of Brazilian Independence
Concentrating on the first two decades of the nineteenth century, this article explores the limitations of state-directed efforts to incorporate colonial Brazil's autonomous native peoples, especially those known as the Botocudo. Significant discord divided state actors charged with implementing plans to transform into loyal subjects these mobile hunters and foragers, who inhabited a forested expanse separating the colony's primary inland mining …
Canibalismo e a legitimidade da guerra justa na época da Independência
No início do século XIX, os esforços do Estado português para dominar os povos indígenas independentes se concentraram na Mata Atlântica que ligava o leste de Minas Gerais ao litoral. O presente artigo atribui aos nativos a contenção das tendências mais violentas desse projeto, depois que a Coroa portuguesa lhes declarou guerra em 1808. Acusados de canibalismo, os índios Botocudo, entre outros, enfrentaram o extermínio. Depois de muitos anos, con…
Myths of Pacification: Brazilian Frontier Settlement and the Subjugation of the Bororo Indians
Journal Article Myths of Pacification: Brazilian Frontier Settlement and the Subjugation of the Bororo Indians Get access Hal Langfur Hal Langfur University of Texas, Department of HistoryAustin, TX 78712 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 32, Issue 4, Summer 1999, Pages 879–905, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/32.4.879 Published: 01 July 1999
An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians; The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana
Book Review| July 01 2001 An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians; The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana By Sir Walter Ralegh. Edited by Neil L. Whitehead. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997. viii + 252 pp., preface, introduction, maps,illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. $37.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.)By Fray Ramón Pané. Edited by José Juan Arrom. Translated by Susan C. Griswold. (Durham, dc: Duke Un…
Uncertain Refuge: Frontier Formation and the Origins of the Botocudo War in Late Colonial Brazil
The major gold and diamond strikes of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries produced an unprecedented economic expansion, a complex urban society, and a rich Baroque culture in the inland region of southeastern Brazil that came to be called Minas Gerais. The mining windfall transformed Portuguese America and the transatlantic commerce that linked it to Europe and Africa. By the time the Portuguese crown fully acknowledged these chan…
The Return of the Bandeira: Economic Calamity, Historical Memory, and Armed Expeditions to the Sertão in Minas Gerais, 1750-1808
Historians of colonial Brazil have conventionally located the conclusion of the great era of bandeira -led conquest somewhere near the end of the seventeenth century. The onset of the colony's gold cycle, corresponding with a series of major inland mineral strikes, reoriented those most actively engaged in the bandeira enterprise. Concentrated in the southern coastal captaincy of São Vicente, later, São Paulo, these wilderness adventurers had exp…
Moved by Terror: Frontier Violence as Cultural Exchange in Late-Colonial Brazil
Rejecting the conventional presumption that violent indigenous resistance to colonization had become all but ineffectual by the late colonial period in Portuguese America, this article uncovers ample archival evidence of successful raiding and other military maneuvers by Brazil's eastern Indians,especially the Botocudo and the Puri. By carefully examining the comportment of both colonizers and colonized, it elucidates how each employed various fo…
The Guaraní under Spanish Rule in the Río de la Plata
Book Review| January 01 2005 The Guaraní under Spanish Rule in the Río de la Plata By Barbara Ganson. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. xii +290 pp., introduction, maps and figures, appendices, glossary, notes,bibliography, index. $65.00 cloth.) Hal Langfur Hal Langfur Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (1): 216–218. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-52-1-216 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Sh…
The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil’s Eastern Indians, 1750-1830
The Forbidden Lands concerns a pivotal but unexamined surge in frontier violence that engulfed the eastern forests of eighteenth-century Brazil's most populous region, Minas Gerais. Focusing on social, cultural, and racial relations, it challenges standard depictions of the occupation of Portuguese America's vast interior, while situating its frontier history in the broader context of the Americas and the Atlantic world. The author argues that th…
Could This Be Heaven or Could This Be Hell? Reconsidering the Myth of Racial Democracy in Brazil
Review Article| July 01 2006 Could This Be Heaven or Could This Be Hell? Reconsidering the Myth of Racial Democracy in Brazil Hal Langfur Hal Langfur Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (3): 603–613. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2006-007 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Hal Langfur; Could This Be Heaven or Could This Be Hell? Reconsid…
Minas Gerais indígena: A resistência dos índios nos sertões e nas vilas de El-Rei
O artigo demonstra a atuação dos índios como importantes agentes sociais na formação sociocultural de Minas Gerais: evidencia a presença de populações indígenas de diversas procedências étnicas nos sertões e nas vilas de Minas Gerais, durante todo o período colonial. Trata da resistência dos índios nos sertões do leste, enfatizando os enfrentamentos com os posseiros e com as expedições de conquista. Aborda ainda a luta dos índios incorporados à s…
Go-betweens and the Colonization of Brazil, 1500-1600
Alida Metcalf offers an important revisionist interpretation in this highly readable study of Portugal’s struggle to found a New World colony. The book begins and ends with an anecdote about Margarida, an Indian woman who helped Bahian plantation owners subdue members of her own ethnic group, the aggressive Aimoré. A baptized resident of a prominent settler’s estate, Margarida persuaded her kinsmen to abandon their violent resistance and enter co…
Reflections on Brazil and Life as a Historian: An Interview with Richard Graham
Richard Graham is one of a handful of historians who shaped the field of Latin American studies in the United States. Graham taught for many years at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor of History Emeritus. At Texas he directed more than 20 doctoral dissertations and served as associate editor and then editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review from 1971 to 1975. Graham is the auth…
Frontier/ Fronteira: A Transnational Reframing of Brazil's Inland Colonization
The following essay examines Portuguese and Brazilian understandings of the frontier as a term and concept applicable to Brazil's colonial history. It argues that Brazilian scholars often rejected the frontier as an analytical concept because of perceived excesses in its application to U.S. history. These reservations proved prescient, as their North American colleagues would come to share many of the same objections. In pushing the idea aside, h…
Jane M. Rausch. Territorial Rule in Colombia and the Transformation of the Llanos Orientales
Journal Article Jane M. Rausch. Territorial Rule in Colombia and the Transformation of the Llanos Orientales. Get access Jane M. Rausch. Territorial Rule in Colombia and the Transformation of the Llanos Orientales. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2013. Pp. x, 186. $69.95. Hal Langfur Hal Langfur University at Buffalo (SUNY) [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Histori…
Canibalismo e a legitimidade da guerra justa na época da Independência
No início do século XIX, os esforços do Estado português para dominar os povos indígenas independentes se concentraram na Mata Atlântica que ligava o leste de Minas Gerais ao litoral. O presente artigo atribui aos nativos a contenção das tendências mais violentas desse projeto, depois que a Coroa portuguesa lhes declarou guerra em 1808. Acusados de canibalismo, os índios Botocudo, entre outros, enfrentaram o extermínio. Depois de muitos anos, con…
Cannibalism and the Body Politic: Independent Indians in the Era of Brazilian Independence
Concentrating on the first two decades of the nineteenth century, this article explores the limitations of state-directed efforts to incorporate colonial Brazil's autonomous native peoples, especially those known as the Botocudo. Significant discord divided state actors charged with implementing plans to transform into loyal subjects these mobile hunters and foragers, who inhabited a forested expanse separating the colony's primary inland mining …
Native Informants and the Limits of Portuguese Dominion in Late-Colonial Brazil
Throughout its colonial history, much of Portuguese America’s sparsely populated territory remained incompletely colonized, the province of autonomous and semiautonomous Indians. In a policy shift after 1750, the implications of which remain poorly understood, the Portuguese Crown intensified efforts to control Brazil’s many inland frontiers. This chapter focuses on one of these regions, the rugged mountains separating the captaincies of Rio de J…
Race and Violence in Portuguese America
This chapter examines the history of racial violence in Portuguese America as a transatlantic coercive pedagogy. It considers the ideas and methods refined by secular and ecclesiastical authorities to teach peoples of indigenous and African descent, as well as white settlers, about the parameters governing the permissible use of force. Concentrating on the enslavement of Indians and blacks, it examines how colonisers came to accept violence organ…
Chapter 9 Ethnological Misadventures
Adrift on an Inland Sea: Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian Backlands
From 1750 until Brazil won its independence in 1822, the Portuguese crown sought to extend imperial control over the colony's immense, sea-like interior and exploit its gold and diamond deposits using enslaved labor. Carrying orders from Lisbon into the Brazilian backlands, elite vassals, soldiers, and scientific experts charged with exploring multiple frontier zones and establishing royal authority conducted themselves in ways that proved diffic…
Informantes nativos e os limites do domínio português no Brasil colonial tardio
Ao longo de sua história colonial, grande parte do território escassamente povoado da América portuguesa não foi completamente colonizado, principalmente a província de indígenas autônomos e semiautônomos. Em uma mudança de política após 1750, cujas implicações permanecem mal compreendidas, a Coroa portuguesa intensificou os esforços para controlar as muitas fronteiras internas do Brasil. Este artigo foca em uma dessas regiões, as serras íngremes…
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