Indigenous knowledge and the cultivation of native species from the Amazon hinterlands, 1670-1757

• Grant number: 20/13724-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: August 01, 2021
• End date: July 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Camila Loureiro Dias
• Grantee: Talles Manoel da Silva
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research examines how the traditional knowledge of the indigenous societies of the "Estado do Maranhão e Grão-Pará" were adapted to a colonial context, being used by missionaries and settlers in the plantation of native species from the Amazon hinterlands. In order to understand how those uses impacted the agricultural development in this period, this research follow some evidences that ranges from the 1670s, when the settlers had a strong incentive by the Portuguese Crown to begin a systematic cultivation of native plants; until 1757, when occurs the Pombaline Reforms, changing the organization of the regional agriculture.

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

SILVA, Talles Manoel da. Indigenous knowledge and the agriculture of local plants in the Portuguese Amazon River Region, 1670-1757. 2024. Master's Dissertation - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Campinas, SP.