Las categorías de la conquista: las mujeres nativas en el vocabulario del siglo XVI (São Vicente, Brasil)

The participation of native women was crucial for Portuguese colonization in their first settlements in mid-sixteenth century Brazil. In fact, the term “índia” (an Indian woman) was rarely used by contemporaries. In the historical documents from that time other categories were employed, such as “neg...

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Main Author: Elisa Frühauf Garcia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2019-02-01
Series:Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/75613