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| Author(s): |
Leandro Mahalem de Lima
Total Authors: 1
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| 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: | 2008-02-27 |
| Examining board members: |
Marta Rosa Amoroso;
Mark Harris;
John Manuel Monteiro
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| Advisor: | Marta Rosa Amoroso |
| Abstract | |
This research stands on the interface between the anthropological and the historical studies about the Brazilian Amazon, and intends to utilize methods and perspectives of both disciplines. Its ultimate aim is to produce an interpretation about the complex of warlike events occurred in this region over the years 1830, which are conventionally designated in its totality as the cabanagem. This study is based on primary records: official documentation, travelers\' accounts, literature and analyses of the epoch, historical maps, among others. Based in such sources, and on the recent studies about the theme, the goal here is to demonstrate that the notion of cabano, which latter turned to characterize the totality of the conflicts and the perspective of the rebels, was operant in the epoch. So, the first effort of this research is to situate the notion (its senses and usages) in the proper epoch. It is defended here that the cabano does not come from one or multiple collectives of agents autoidentified as such, but from their on contraries and enemies, auto-identified as legalistas, which considered their own selves as the true representatives of the good man, the civilization and the humanity. The cabano, in its usage in the epoch, was a derogatory expression, forged to characterize the unity of the contraries of the legalidade, which could all be lawfully exterminated, captured for forced labor, or expelled from their own lands. Therefore, the first objective of this piece of work is to describe and to detail this strategy droved against all the ones who were out of the pact of the legalistas, in the Amazonian territory. The second one is an attempt to situate who were the so called cabanos, which were their autoidentifications and what were their intentions, in this complex of armed confrontations which comprised all the territory of the Brazilian Amazon of the epoch. (AU) | |