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'This fabulous book takes the risk of situating itself in a watery and fluid space of improbable mediations to recount the formation of Amazonian riverbank societies in the 17th and 18th centuries. A must-read.' Carlos Fausto, author of Art Effects: Image, Agency and Ritual in Amazonia 'Our accumulated knowledge of Amazonian history and anthropology has deepened but also fragmented our understanding of this vast region. Harris's remarkable interdisciplinary synthesis provides an essential, unifying interpretation of diverse Indigenous responses to early Portuguese colonization.' Hal Langfur, author of Adrift on an Inland Sea: Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian Backlands 'Mark Harris did it again. After telling us in Rebellion on the Amazon that Amazonian peoples fought a devastating war, lost it militarily, but won the right to preserve their ways of life, now he treats us to The Making of Brazilian Amazonian Societies, unveiling further those ways of life in their impressive diversity region wide. Like a nutshell, an Amazonian canoe, he says, reveals it all: 'Within a canoe, there is an Amazonian world in miniature.' It is the Amazon with a British accent. Splendid!' Alcida Rita Ramos, author of Indigenism: Ethnic Politics in Brazil 'In this boldly original work of historical anthropology, Harris reveals how diverse peoples in the Eastern Amazon created interconnected worlds via rivers and forest paths. Making room for multiple histories and bringing Indigenous perspectives to the forefront, this is interdisciplinary scholarship at its most compelling.' Heather F. Roller, author of Contact Strategies: Histories of Native Autonomy in Brazil

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Mark Harris is Professor and head of the School of Philosophical, Historical and Indigenous Studies at Monash University. He is also an honorary research fellow at the University of St Andrews. His book Life on the Amazon won the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs Prize, and Rebellion on the Amazon received an Honourable Mention for the Warren Dean Memorial Prize.

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