Bandeirantismo and Christianity, practices in synchronic: a study about the social role of nossa senhora da Ajuda settlements on the occupational process of the upland of the captaincy of São Vicente (1560-1640)

• Grant number: 19/07999-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Effective date (Start): February 01, 2020
• Effective date (End): December 31, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of America
• Principal Investigator: Fernando Atique
• Grantee: Diana Magna da Costa
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This work proposes a study about the social function of Nossa Senhora d'Ajuda settlements, in Itaquaquecetuba, along with the territorial occupation process of the upland of the captaincy of São Vicente between 1560 and 1640. This settlement, whose creation is commonly attributed to the missionary pilgrimages of José de Anchieta in 1560, undergoes significant transformations at the turn of the century until be transferred to the possession of Jesus's company in the middle of 1640. Belonging to the villa of Santa Ana from Mogi das Cruzes after your foundation in 1611, it has your chapel built at the terms of the sesmaria from the Father João Álvares, an active member of the secular clergy, who actuation on the settlements at the region is distinguished in a context of the highlight of the bandeirante expeditions. Under the personal administration of this father in the period when they attempted to implement a new economic integration policy- metropolitan initiative represented by the actuation of general governor D. Francisco de Souza in the Villa of São Paulo-, this settlements became a core of natives "administered". Thus, considering the so-called settlements as an alternative strategy for the native's assimilation and as effective social control of the native work in the upland, we'll try to understand the role of Nossa Senhora d'Ajuda settlements for the social organization of the settler in the area. Problematizing the relationship between the secular clergy and regular clergy in this context the context of disputes and also the impact of their actions in the indigenous enslavement process.