16世纪和17世纪果阿的殖民是如何发生的？它与戈安殖民地臣民皈依天主教的项目有何关系？在《葡萄牙-印度的宗教与帝国》一书中，恩格拉·巴雷托·泽维尔通过阅读相关的世俗和传教士档案和文本来研究这些问题。她展示了葡萄牙-印度的皈依和殖民的双重驱动如何导致各种结果，从谈判到被动抵抗，再到极端暴力的时刻。巴雷托·泽维尔（Barreto Xavier）专注于农村腹地，而不是果阿城本身，展示了果阿演员如何抓住复杂的文化资源，以推进自己的项目，讲述自己的神话和历史。她认为，在这个过程中，葡萄牙果阿成为了一个具有特定身份的空间，这是这些竞争和互动的结果。这本书对殖民者和被殖民者的类别进行了非本质化，使他们的内部群体利益多样性、他们不同的身份认同模式，以及他们互动和交流中当地动态的特殊性——换句话说，就是编织殖民生活结构的几条线索——变得清晰可见。
Religion and Empire in Portuguese India: Conversion, Resistance, and the Making of Goa
How did the colonization of Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries take place? How was it related to projects for the conversion of Goan colonial subjects to Catholicism? In Religion and Empire in Portuguese India, Ângela Barreto Xavier examines these questions through a reading of the relevant secular and missionary archives and texts. She shows how the twin drives of conversion and colonization in Portuguese India resulted in a variety of outcomes, ranging from negotiation to passive resistance to moments of extreme violence. Focusing on the rural hinterlands rather than the city of Goa itself, Barreto Xavier shows how Goan actors were able to seize hold of complex cultural resources in order to further their own projects and narrate their own myths and histories. In the process, she argues, Portuguese Goa emerged as a space with a specific identity that was a result of these contestations and interactions. The book de-essentializes the categories of colonizer and colonized, making visible instead their inner-group diversity of interests, their different modes of identification, and the specificity of local dynamics in their interactions and exchanges–in other words, the several threads that wove the fabric of colonial life.
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