Contributors
- Contributors
Stuart B. Schwartz is the George Burton Adams Professor of history at Yale University and is currently coeditor of the HAHR. He is the author of Sovereignty and Society in Colonial Brazil: The High Court of Bahia and Its Judges, 1609–1751 (1973), Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society: Bahia, 1550–1835 (1985), and Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery (1988). He is also coeditor, with Frank Salomon, of South America, vol. 3 of The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas (1999). He is presently working on a history of religious and cultural tolerance and dissidence in Iberia and colonial Latin America.
John M. Monteiro received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago and currently teaches anthropology at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), where he also serves as director of the doctoral program in the Social Sciences. He is the author of Negros da terra: Índios e bandeirantes nas origens de São Paulo (1994) and editor of Guia de fontes para a história indígena e do indigenismo em arquivos brasileiros (1994). He has published several articles on the history of indigenous populations in colonial and nineteenth-century Brazil, including a recent contribution to The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas. At present, he is writing a book on Portuguese-Indian relations in a completely different context from his earlier work; this book focuses on South Asia in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries.
Neil L. Whitehead is associate professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently, he is the editor of Ethnohistory. He is the author of Lords of the Tiger Spirit: A History of the Caribs in Colonial Venezuela and Guyana, 1498–1820 (1988). He is the editor of Wolves from the Sea: Readings in the Anthropology of the Native Caribbean (1995). He is also coeditor, with Peter Hulme, of Wild Majesty: Encounters with Caribs from Columbus to the Present Day: An Anthology (1992) and, with R. Brian [End Page 1] Ferguson, of War in the Tribal Zone: Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare (1992). In 1997 he transcribed, annotated, and wrote the introduction to Sir Walter Raleigh’s The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana. He has also published numerous articles on the ethnohistory and anthropology of Amazonian and Caribbean peoples, including chapters for volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, ed. Frank Salomon and Stuart B. Schwartz (1999), volume 2 of Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Arctic, Australian, and Pacific Societies, ed. David Woodward and G. Malcolm Lewis (1998), and volume 2 of General History of the Caribbean, ed. P. C. Emmer (1999).
Tom Conley is professor of Romance languages at Harvard University. He is the author of The Self-Made Map: Cartographic Writing in Early Modern France (1997), The Graphic Unconscious in Early Modern French Writing (1992), and Film Hieroglyphs: Ruptures in Classical Cinema (1991). He has translated works by Michel de Certeau, Gilles Deleuze, and Marc Augé.
Janaína Amado is professor of Brazilian history at the University of Brasília. She has written extensively about frontier experiences and messianic movements in Brazil. She is the author of Conflito social no Brasil: A revolta dos ‘Mucker,’ Rio Grande do Sul, 1868–1898 (1978), Frontier in Comparative Perspectives: The United States and Brazil (1990), and A formação do império português (1999). She is currently doing research on the early Portuguese empire, and finishing a book manuscript on Portuguese banishment to Brazil during the colonial period.
A. J. R. Russell-Wood received his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford, and has been on the faculty of The Johns Hopkins University since 1972. Whereas earlier researches focused exclusively on colonial Brazil, he then attempted to place Brazil in the broader context of the Portuguese seaborne empire, and more recently, has engaged in exercises in comparative colonialism. He is the author of The Portuguese Empire, 1415–1808: A World on the Move (1998) and The Black Man in Slavery and Freedom in Colonial Brazil (1982). His recent publications include Local Government in European Overseas Empires, 1450–1800...
