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Seminar: Cannibalism and the Body Politic: Independent Indians in the Era of Brazilian Indpendence

A lunchtime seminar given by Harold Langfur, Department of History, SUNY Buffalo

Field(s): North and South Atlantic History

Hub(s): Knowledge; Culture and Society; Transnational Developments

Research Interests: Research: Colonial and post-independence Brazil; early modern Atlantic world; race relations; comparative indigenous history; cross-cultural encounters; cultures of violence.

Current Research: He is currently working on two book projects, the first entitled "Adrift on an Inland Sea: The Projection of Colonial Power in the Brazilian Wilderness," the second entitled "Negotiating Terror: Brazil's Indian Wars and Violence as Cultural Exchange in the Early Modern Atlantic World."

For more information about Harold Langfur:
http://www.history.buffalo.edu/people/langfur.shtml
Sponsor Latin American Studies Program
Date
Time 12:15PM -to- 1:15PM
Location 153 Uris Hall
URL Website available, click here

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