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During the late eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain sent joint
mapping expeditions to draw a nearly 10,000-mile border between
Brazil and Spanish South America. These boundary commissions were
the largest ever sent to the Americas and coincided with broader
imperial reforms enacted throughout the hemisphere. Where Caciques
and Mapmakers Met considers what these efforts meant to Indigenous
peoples whose lands the border crossed. Moving beyond common
frameworks that assess mapped borders strictly via colonial law or
Native sovereignty, it examines the interplay between imperial and
Indigenous spatial imaginaries. What results is an intricate
spatial history of border making in southeastern South America
(present-day Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay) with global
implications. Drawing upon manuscripts from over two dozen archives
in seven countries, Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr. traces on-the-ground
interactions between Ibero-American colonists, Jesuit and Guarani
mission-dwellers, and autonomous Indigenous peoples as they
responded to ever-changing notions of territorial possession. It
reveals that Native agents shaped when and where the border was
drawn, and fused it to their own territorial claims. While
mapmakers' assertions of Indigenous disappearance or subjugation
shaped historiographical imaginations thereafter, Erbig reveals
that the formation of a border was contingent upon Native
engagement and authority.
During the late eighteenth century, Portugal and Spain sent joint
mapping expeditions to draw a nearly 10,000-mile border between
Brazil and Spanish South America. These boundary commissions were
the largest ever sent to the Americas and coincided with broader
imperial reforms enacted throughout the hemisphere. Where Caciques
and Mapmakers Met considers what these efforts meant to Indigenous
peoples whose lands the border crossed. Moving beyond common
frameworks that assess mapped borders strictly via colonial law or
Native sovereignty, it examines the interplay between imperial and
Indigenous spatial imaginaries. What results is an intricate
spatial history of border making in southeastern South America
(present-day Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay) with global
implications. Drawing upon manuscripts from over two dozen archives
in seven countries, Jeffrey Alan Erbig Jr. traces on-the-ground
interactions between Ibero-American colonists, Jesuit and Guarani
mission-dwellers, and autonomous Indigenous peoples as they
responded to ever-changing notions of territorial possession. It
reveals that Native agents shaped when and where the border was
drawn, and fused it to their own territorial claims. While
mapmakers' assertions of Indigenous disappearance or subjugation
shaped historiographical imaginations thereafter, Erbig reveals
that the formation of a border was contingent upon Native
engagement and authority.
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