Tutelage, assistance and indigenous labor in the Brazilian Republic period (1910-1988)

• Grant number: 18/04025-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: April 01, 2018
• End date: March 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Silvia Hunold Lara
• Grantee: Luiza Oliveira Pereira de Andrade
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/21979-5 - Between slavery and the burden of freedom: workers and forms of labor exploitation in historical perspective, AP.TEM

Abstract

This project analyses the indigenous legislation during the Brazilian republican period, from the creation of the Indian Protection Service (Serviço de Proteção aos Índios - SPI), in 1910, until the 1988 Constitution. The purpose is to understand the relationship between the institution of "tutelage" and the transformation of the Indian into a "national worker". The analysis will focus on the legislative material previously inserted in the Database "Legislação: Trabalhadores e Trabalho em Portugal, Brasil e África Colonial Portuguesa" (http://www.ifch.unicamp.br/cecult/lex/web/). The student will carry out a bibliographical study on the subject and an examination of a set of about 20 already selected decrees, aiming to produce a short historical and historiographic essay on the main aspects of Brazilian indigenous politics in the 20th century. (AU)