Full text
| |
| Author(s): |
Jessica Aparecida Correa
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) |
| Defense date: | 2021-04-16 |
| Examining board members: |
Manoel Fernandes de Sousa Neto;
Fernanda Padovesi Fonseca;
Bernadete Aparecida Caprioglio de Castro Oliveira;
Perla Brigida Zusman
|
| Advisor: | Manoel Fernandes de Sousa Neto |
| Abstract | |
The hoaxes of \"progress\" and \"civilization\" touted by European colonists revived in the eighteenth century the bloodiest forms of slavery and territorial looting of the South American peoples. This research problematizes colonial violence as a category of a Brazil\'s territorial formation analysis. Our theoretical and methodological position is based on Historical Geography upon a backwash, a perspective which has the principle of repudiating any empathy to the Official History of the \"winners\" at Caiboaté\'s extermination, on February 10th, 1756, entitled by the official version of \"Guerra Guaranítica\". Our geographic and retrospective reading is supported by Benjamin\'s thesis on history, which is why in contrary to the official view, the effort is to highlight Guaranitic resistance against the imposition of the Treaty of Madrid (1750). In this way, the analysis of the historical period and cartographic resources relies on the perspective of the oppressed tradition, that is, it is through the perspective of the war extermination that the historical and geographical elements are mobilized. Our claim is to report that the \"Guerra Guaranítica\" was in fact an extermination promoted by the Crowns of Portugal and Spain against the Guarani, who fought trying to defend the territories of the Seven Missions Peoples. The Guarani who resisted were accused and punished for committing the crime of \"lèse-majesty\" for breaking the \"pact of vassalage \" with the Crown. In the resistance, Sepé Tiaraju and other Guarani leaders were assassinated, and the missionary territories destroyed; these violence are registered on maps, letters and documents of the time. The commemoration of the extermination against the Indians was raged in Colony and Overseas and as a result, the violence of war was \"glorified\" and \"naturalized\" in the cartographic sources produced by the technicians and soldiers hired by the Crowns to demarcate the South American borders. The geopolitical boom of indigenous resistance reverberated beyond colonial territories. In this sequence, the adhesion of important Jesuit authorities of the Society of Jesus in the defense of the territories of the Seven Peoples has aggravated the uncertainties and complexified the border disputes between the Iberian Crowns. The cartography produced in the 18th century on the interiors and \"backlands\" brought in their representations the project of war and the realization of the Metropolis\'s external power over the pre-established original sociability. The struggles and uprisings against the colonizing project are the result of the systematic violence and undertaken extermination in colonization. In this perspective, indigenous resistance was publicized by official sources as \"embarrassment\", \"obstacle\", \"obstacle\" and \"barbarism\". Thus, when we \"brush\" Brazil\'s colonization history upon a backwash, what we find in its roots are the battles of the original peoples, which were never won! The defense of missionary territories by the indigenous and priests challenged the Iberian empires, therefore, on the other side of the extermination, the Guarani remembrance of the fight against the invasion of the Seven Missions Peoples is a power that even today strengthens resistance against the incessant territorial sketch inaugurated in the \"Age of Discoveries\". Thus, the effort made in the research is committed to \"reopening\" the history of territorial formation in Brazil and bringing indigenous resistance to the scene as an elementary category for geographic reading. For that, it is essential to first dispose of the title \"Guerra Guaranítica\", because we stand beside the reading of the Guarani resistance, which reports the perspective of the \"winners of history\", which spread the blame for the extermination through war. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/20574-2 - Geography of the Guarani war: violence and resistance in the territorial formation of Brazil (1752-177) |
| Grantee: | Jessica Aparecida Correa |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |