Friday, January 9, 2004

2:30–4:30 p.m.

50. Frontier Expeditions and Indigenous Responses: Rethinking Bandeirismo in Colonial Brazil
Marriott, Virginia Suite B

Joint session with the Conference on Latin American History

Chair: A. J. R. Russell-Wood, Johns Hopkins University
Papers:

The “Bandeiras” of Bahia of the Sixteenth Century
Alida C. Metcalf, Trinity University

Allies and Enemies: Entradas in the Brazilian North, 1650–1750
Barbara A. Sommer, Gettysburg College

The Return of the Bandeira: Economic Calamity, Elite Identity, and Armed Expeditions to the Sertão in Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1760–1808
Hal Langfur, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Rethinking the Conquest of Goiás, 1775–1819
Mary Karasch, Oakland University

Comment: John Monteiro, Harvard University