Alida C Metcalf
Biographic Data
| ID | 685316 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alida C Metcalf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alida C |
| FAMILY NAME | Metcalf |
| SIGNATURE | METCALF A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8175-8339 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Water Carriers and Water Infrastructure in a Slave City: Rio de Janeiro, 1565–1888
The city of Rio de Janeiro depended on water carriers for four hundred years, and the vast majority were enslaved. Water carriers allowed the city to be situated and to grow in a location without easy access to water. Their presence, hard labour, and daily exploitation became a normal part of domestic life in a slave city. Even as water infrastructure was built, water carriers continued to be an essential piece of the city’s water delivery system…
Sandra Lauderdale Graham
Sandra was always fascinated by "the particular in the up-close examinations of identifiable persons : : : confident that these single cases can speak to larger matters." 1 This sharp focus can be seen
ImagineRio Narratives: A Storytelling Tool for Spatial History in Rio de Janeiro
Lara, Silvia Hunold. 2021. Palmares & Cucaú: O aprendizado da dominação . São Paulo: Edusp; Lara, Silvia Hunold e Phablo Roberto Marchis Fachin, orgs. 2021. Guerra contra Palmares: o manuscrito de 167…
Silvia Hunold Lara. 2021. Palmares & Cucaú: o aprendizado da dominação. São Paulo: Edusp; Silvia Hunold Lara e Phablo Roberto Marchis Fachin, orgs. 2021. Guerra contra Palmares: o manuscrito de 1678. São Paulo: Chão Editora; Documenta Palmares: um instrumento de pesquisa. <https://www
A mere gutter!’ The Carioca Aqueduct and water delivery in mid-nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro
The two key aspects of water infrastructure – engineered and human – in mid-nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro are the foci of this article. On the one hand, gravity flow engineering brought fresh water from the Tijuca Forest to the fountains in the city, but on the other, hundreds of slaves carried heavy jugs of water from the fountains though the streets to residences. Using the account of Thomas Ewbank (1856), georeferenced historical maps and …
Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500
Recognizing early modern cartographers as significant agents in the intellectual history of the Atlantic, Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500 includes around 50 beautiful and illuminating historical maps.
Women and Means: Women and Family Property in Colonial Brazil
This chapter focuses on “women of means” or the women of the propertied class of the colonial town of Santana de Parnaíba. Mediterranean societies inherited this tension between women’s rights to property and patriarchal values from Roman society. The women of means came from the propertied class of Santana de Parnaíba, a modestly affluent group of families by the standards of colonial Brazil. Women in Portugal and Brazil had specific legal right…
Women as Go-Betweens? Patterns in Sixteenth-Century Brazil
Go-betweens are everywhere in the Atlantic world during the age of discovery and colonization, but how many of them were women? In a fascinating essay on gobetweens, literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt selects Doña Marina, or Malintzin, Hernán Cortés’s interpreter in the conquest of Mexico, as ‘the supreme instance of the go-between in the New World’ because she was the figure through whom all communication between the Aztec and Spanish worlds pa…
Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World. Angola and Brazil During the Era of the Slave Trade
Timothy J. Coates. Convict Labor in the Portuguese Empire, 1740–1932: Redefining the Empire with Forced Labor and New Imperialism
In Convict Labor in the Portuguese Empire, 1740–1932: Redefining the Empire with Forced Labor and New Imperialism, Timothy Coates completes his pathbreaking study of the Portuguese state’s use of exile (degredo) as a means of social control and imperial management. From Coates’s work, both here and in two earlier books, historians are now familiar with degredo, which was a feature of Portuguese society from the creation of the state in the Middle…
Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas
This book promises the reader a new understanding of how boundaries between Spain and Portugal came into being, whether in Europe or in the Americas. Tamar Herzog stresses the common cultural heritage of Portuguese and Spanish actors who articulated legal doctrine, evoked local history, and obeyed the law while seeking the interpretations that best served their needs. The basic premise is that borders resulted from “activities by a plethora of ag…
Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: The Luso-Brazilian World, c. 1770-1850
This detailed political history insists that the Luso-Atlantic world did not undergo an Age of Revolution. Rather, Brazil and Portugal were closely knit in the second half of the eighteenth century and remained so, despite Brazilian independence, until 1850. Paquette focuses on individuals whose political thought, actions, and roles reverberated back and forth across the Atlantic. These individuals, such as the cosmopolitan and pragmatic civil se…
The Return of Hans Staden: A Go-between in the Atlantic World
The Return of Hans Staden: A Go-between in the Atlantic World
Hans Staden's sixteenth-century account of shipwreck and captivity by the Tupinamba Indians of Brazil was an early modern bestseller. This retelling of the German sailor's eyewitness account known as The True History shows both why it was so popular at the time and why it remains an important tool for understanding the opening of the Atlantic world. Eve M. Duffy and Alida C. Metcalf carefully reconstruct Staden's life as a German soldier, his two…
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…
Hans Staden's True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil
At long last an English edition of Hans Staden’s account of his captivity among the Tupi-nambá of mid-sixteenth-century Brazil is available for scholars, teachers, and students. Long shrouded in controversy following William Arens’s attack on Staden in The Man-Eating Myth (Oxford, 1979), Staden’s tale has languished in limbo with historians uncertain how to address accounts of cannibalism. This book, with an extensive introduction written by anth…
Religião como tradução: Missionários, Tupi e Tapuia no Brasil colonial
This book is a long-overdue ethnohistory of Tupi peoples of the sixteenth-century Brazilian coast, and the inland peoples — known generically as the Tapuia — of the seventeenth-century Brazilian interior (sertão). Rejecting the approach often used by anthropologists and historians to characterize the history of contact, conquest, and colonization as a stark opposition between “Indians” who wanted to preserve their culture and “Europeans” who want…
The Entradas of Bahia of the Sixteenth Century
When Pero Magalhães de Gândavo returned to Portugal from Brazil in the 1570s, he wrote two accounts about life in Brazil, both of which extol the possibilities for poor Portuguese colonists. In one treatise he proclaims that as soon as a colonist arrives, no matter how poor, if he obtains slaves “he then has the means for sustenance; because some fish and hunt, and the others produce for him maintenance and crops; and so little by little the men …
Charles R. Boxer: An Uncommon Life
Charles Ralph Boxer (1904–2000), whose life is carefully reconstructed in Dauril Alden’s handsome book, was one of the last of his kind: a privileged English gentleman, soldier, and scholar who loved to travel, read, write, and collect rare books. This biography, dedicated by Alden “[t]o those who have known and revered Charles Ralph Boxer,” is a tribute to this man’s life and work by one of his greatest admirers.Alden is clearly fascinated by Bo…
Millenarian Slaves? The Santidade de Jaguaripe and Slave Resistance in the Americas
RUMORS OF A NEW RELIGION SPREAD through the forests, parishes, and sugar plantations of the Bay of All Saints in the hinterland of Salvador da Bahia, capital of the Portuguese colony of Brazil, in the 1580s. By 1585, scores of Indians, many Africans, and virtually all of the mixed race Mamelucos (the offspring of Portuguese men and Indian women) had heard of a congregation in the wilderness where participants had constructed their own temple, pra…
Millenarian Slaves? The Santidade de Jaguaripe and Slave Resistance in the Americas
Millenarian Slaves? The Santidade de Jaguaripe and Slave Resistance in the Americas Get access Alida C. Metcalf Alida C. Metcalf Professor of history Trinity University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 104, Issue 5, December 1999, Pages 1531–1559, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/104.5.1531 Published: 01 December 1999
A Heresia dos Indios: Catolicismo e rebeldia no Brasil colonial. By Ronaldo Vainfas. (Sao Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1995. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. No price.)
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Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823
Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaiba, 1580-1822
Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaíba, 1580-1822
Part 1 The culture of conflict: field reality and theory the anthropology and the politics of genocide domination, acting and fantasy. Part 2 Resisting ethnicity: the Israeli state and Bedouin identity hyenas on the border. Part 3 Ideas on Philippine violence: assertions, negation and narrations time and irony in Manila squatter movements. Part 4 When the people were strong and United: stories of the past and the transformation of politics in a M…
Millenarian Slaves? The Santidade de Jaguaripe and Slave Resistance in the Americas
RUMORS OF A NEW RELIGION SPREAD through the forests, parishes, and sugar plantations of the Bay of All Saints in the hinterland of Salvador da Bahia, capital of the Portuguese colony of Brazil, in the 1580s. By 1585, scores of Indians, many Africans, and virtually all of the mixed race Mamelucos (the offspring of Portuguese men and Indian women) had heard of a congregation in the wilderness where participants had constructed their own temple, pra…
The Entradas of Bahia of the Sixteenth Century
When Pero Magalhães de Gândavo returned to Portugal from Brazil in the 1570s, he wrote two accounts about life in Brazil, both of which extol the possibilities for poor Portuguese colonists. In one treatise he proclaims that as soon as a colonist arrives, no matter how poor, if he obtains slaves “he then has the means for sustenance; because some fish and hunt, and the others produce for him maintenance and crops; and so little by little the men …
Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America
Fathers and Sons: The Politics of Inheritance in a Colonial Brazilian Township
HAT fathers should be concerned about whom their daughters marry is neither surprising nor unusual. But that fathers should favor their sons-in-law over their own sons is both a remarkable and interesting phenomenon. Curiously, this practice has been observed by several historians studying colonial Latin America, yet few have stopped to evaluate either its origins or implications. This article analyzes the favored sons-in-law in the province of S…
A Heresia dos Indios: Catolicismo e rebeldia no Brasil colonial. By Ronaldo Vainfas. (Sao Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1995. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. No price.)
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Women and Means: Women and Family Property in Colonial Brazil
Journal Article Women and Means: Women and Family Property in Colonial Brazil Get access Alida C. Metcalf Alida C. Metcalf Department of History, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 78212 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 24, Issue 2, Winter 1990, Pages 277–298, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/24.2.277 Published: 01 December 1990
Millenarian Slaves? The Santidade de Jaguaripe and Slave Resistance in the Americas
Millenarian Slaves? The Santidade de Jaguaripe and Slave Resistance in the Americas Get access Alida C. Metcalf Alida C. Metcalf Professor of history Trinity University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 104, Issue 5, December 1999, Pages 1531–1559, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/104.5.1531 Published: 01 December 1999
Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaiba, 1580-1822
A mere gutter!’ The Carioca Aqueduct and water delivery in mid-nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro
The two key aspects of water infrastructure – engineered and human – in mid-nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro are the foci of this article. On the one hand, gravity flow engineering brought fresh water from the Tijuca Forest to the fountains in the city, but on the other, hundreds of slaves carried heavy jugs of water from the fountains though the streets to residences. Using the account of Thomas Ewbank (1856), georeferenced historical maps and …
Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500
Recognizing early modern cartographers as significant agents in the intellectual history of the Atlantic, Mapping an Atlantic World, circa 1500 includes around 50 beautiful and illuminating historical maps.
Charles R. Boxer: An Uncommon Life
Charles Ralph Boxer (1904–2000), whose life is carefully reconstructed in Dauril Alden’s handsome book, was one of the last of his kind: a privileged English gentleman, soldier, and scholar who loved to travel, read, write, and collect rare books. This biography, dedicated by Alden “[t]o those who have known and revered Charles Ralph Boxer,” is a tribute to this man’s life and work by one of his greatest admirers.Alden is clearly fascinated by Bo…
Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823
Searching for the Slave Family in Colonial Brazil: A Reconstruction from São Paulo
This article reconstructs slave family life in a rural town in which a large number of slaves married, slave women had high fertility, and slaves lived primarily in nuclear families. The marriage and fertility rates of slaves lag behind those of the free population, but do not differ radically from them. This portrait of slave family life contrasts with the common portrayal of slave families in Brazil in which historians report that few slaves ma…
New Towns for Colonial Brazil: Spatial and Social Planning of the Eighteenth Century
Fathers and Sons: The Politics of Inheritance in a Colonial Brazilian Township
HAT fathers should be concerned about whom their daughters marry is neither surprising nor unusual. But that fathers should favor their sons-in-law over their own sons is both a remarkable and interesting phenomenon. Curiously, this practice has been observed by several historians studying colonial Latin America, yet few have stopped to evaluate either its origins or implications. This article analyzes the favored sons-in-law in the province of S…
Household Economy and Urban Development: São Paulo, 1765-1836
Cartas de mujeres en Chile, 1630-1885
Women and Means: Women and Family Property in Colonial Brazil
Journal Article Women and Means: Women and Family Property in Colonial Brazil Get access Alida C. Metcalf Alida C. Metcalf Department of History, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 78212 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 24, Issue 2, Winter 1990, Pages 277–298, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/24.2.277 Published: 01 December 1990
Searching for the Slave Family in Colonial Brazil: A Reconstruction from São Paulo
This article reconstructs slave family life in a rural town in which a large number of slaves married, slave women had high fertility, and slaves lived primarily in nuclear families. The marriage and fertility rates of slaves lag behind those of the free population, but do not differ radically from them. This portrait of slave family life contrasts with the common portrayal of slave families in Brazil in which historians report that few slaves ma…
Sexuality and Marriage in Colonial Latin America
Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaiba, 1580-1822
Family customs in Portugal and Brazil: Transatlantic parallels
Les auteurs comparent deux communautés, l'une située au nord-ouest du Portugal, l'autre à São Paulo, Brésil, et cherchent à identifier les similitudes en matière de structures familiales. Les parametres systématiquement mis en parallèle sont principalement: l'illégitimité, la matrilocalité, la fréquence des chefs de ménage féminins, les types de succession et les modèles migratoires. La question principale est de savoir dans quelle mesure une sim…
Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil, Santana de Parnaiba, 1580-1822
Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaiba, 1580-1822
Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaíba, 1580-1822
Part 1 The culture of conflict: field reality and theory the anthropology and the politics of genocide domination, acting and fantasy. Part 2 Resisting ethnicity: the Israeli state and Bedouin identity hyenas on the border. Part 3 Ideas on Philippine violence: assertions, negation and narrations time and irony in Manila squatter movements. Part 4 When the people were strong and United: stories of the past and the transformation of politics in a M…
A Heresia dos Indios: Catolicismo e rebeldia no Brasil colonial. By Ronaldo Vainfas. (Sao Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1995. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. No price.)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Crowns of Glory, Tears of Blood: The Demerara Slave Rebellion of 1823
Millenarian Slaves? The Santidade de Jaguaripe and Slave Resistance in the Americas
RUMORS OF A NEW RELIGION SPREAD through the forests, parishes, and sugar plantations of the Bay of All Saints in the hinterland of Salvador da Bahia, capital of the Portuguese colony of Brazil, in the 1580s. By 1585, scores of Indians, many Africans, and virtually all of the mixed race Mamelucos (the offspring of Portuguese men and Indian women) had heard of a congregation in the wilderness where participants had constructed their own temple, pra…
Millenarian Slaves? The Santidade de Jaguaripe and Slave Resistance in the Americas
Millenarian Slaves? The Santidade de Jaguaripe and Slave Resistance in the Americas Get access Alida C. Metcalf Alida C. Metcalf Professor of history Trinity University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 104, Issue 5, December 1999, Pages 1531–1559, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/104.5.1531 Published: 01 December 1999
Charles R. Boxer: An Uncommon Life
Charles Ralph Boxer (1904–2000), whose life is carefully reconstructed in Dauril Alden’s handsome book, was one of the last of his kind: a privileged English gentleman, soldier, and scholar who loved to travel, read, write, and collect rare books. This biography, dedicated by Alden “[t]o those who have known and revered Charles Ralph Boxer,” is a tribute to this man’s life and work by one of his greatest admirers.Alden is clearly fascinated by Bo…
The Entradas of Bahia of the Sixteenth Century
When Pero Magalhães de Gândavo returned to Portugal from Brazil in the 1570s, he wrote two accounts about life in Brazil, both of which extol the possibilities for poor Portuguese colonists. In one treatise he proclaims that as soon as a colonist arrives, no matter how poor, if he obtains slaves “he then has the means for sustenance; because some fish and hunt, and the others produce for him maintenance and crops; and so little by little the men …
Religião como tradução: Missionários, Tupi e Tapuia no Brasil colonial
This book is a long-overdue ethnohistory of Tupi peoples of the sixteenth-century Brazilian coast, and the inland peoples — known generically as the Tapuia — of the seventeenth-century Brazilian interior (sertão). Rejecting the approach often used by anthropologists and historians to characterize the history of contact, conquest, and colonization as a stark opposition between “Indians” who wanted to preserve their culture and “Europeans” who want…
Hans Staden's True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil
At long last an English edition of Hans Staden’s account of his captivity among the Tupi-nambá of mid-sixteenth-century Brazil is available for scholars, teachers, and students. Long shrouded in controversy following William Arens’s attack on Staden in The Man-Eating Myth (Oxford, 1979), Staden’s tale has languished in limbo with historians uncertain how to address accounts of cannibalism. This book, with an extensive introduction written by anth…
The Return of Hans Staden: A Go-between in the Atlantic World
The Return of Hans Staden: A Go-between in the Atlantic World
Hans Staden's sixteenth-century account of shipwreck and captivity by the Tupinamba Indians of Brazil was an early modern bestseller. This retelling of the German sailor's eyewitness account known as The True History shows both why it was so popular at the time and why it remains an important tool for understanding the opening of the Atlantic world. Eve M. Duffy and Alida C. Metcalf carefully reconstruct Staden's life as a German soldier, his two…
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…
Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: The Luso-Brazilian World, c. 1770-1850
This detailed political history insists that the Luso-Atlantic world did not undergo an Age of Revolution. Rather, Brazil and Portugal were closely knit in the second half of the eighteenth century and remained so, despite Brazilian independence, until 1850. Paquette focuses on individuals whose political thought, actions, and roles reverberated back and forth across the Atlantic. These individuals, such as the cosmopolitan and pragmatic civil se…
Frontiers of Possession: Spain and Portugal in Europe and the Americas
This book promises the reader a new understanding of how boundaries between Spain and Portugal came into being, whether in Europe or in the Americas. Tamar Herzog stresses the common cultural heritage of Portuguese and Spanish actors who articulated legal doctrine, evoked local history, and obeyed the law while seeking the interpretations that best served their needs. The basic premise is that borders resulted from “activities by a plethora of ag…
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