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Idle and Seditionaries: indigenous peoples and the labour times in Piratininga fields (Seventeenth Century)

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Author(s):
Gustavo Velloso
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Press: São Paulo.
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
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Examining board members:
Carlos Alberto de Moura Ribeiro Zeron; Maria Hilda Baqueiro Paraiso; João Paulo Garrido Pimenta
Advisor: Carlos Alberto de Moura Ribeiro Zeron
Abstract

This work contains a reading of the process of colonial incorporation of the indigenous people resident in the south of the American continent during the seventeenth century, initiate with his forced involvement in new temporal patterns of work, strange in comparison to those who were accustomed before. The analysis has a geographical focus in the up-area of São Paulo, where at the time were installed sites and farms whose commercial production employed hundreds of natives. We argue that the large number of those indigenous groups, despite their diversity, shared a similar pattern of settlement and expectations related to productive labour. Increasingly, these expectations were unviable by the incorporation of those Indians in a complex structure of production of surplus whose control, direction and rhythms of work they were in general alienated. Restoration attempts of their previous situation had originated violent reactions and individual or collective leaks, a práxis in a crucial moment of São Paulo colonial history. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 13/18816-7 - The everyday Coerced: time of work, ideology of slavery and resistance in the southern Luso American agricultural zone (seventeenth century)
Grantee:Gustavo Velloso
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master