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| Author(s): |
Agatha Francesconi Gatti
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: | 2010-03-12 |
| Examining board members: |
Pedro Luis Puntoni;
Marcos Galindo Lima;
Fernando Antonio Novais
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| Advisor: | Pedro Luis Puntoni |
| Abstract | |
This master thesis aims to comprehend the action of the Junta das Missões de Pernambuco, institution that was founded in 1681 and continued to work during the first half of 18th century, ending its activities in 1759. The Junta das Missões de Pernambuco was created in the course of the consolidation of the cattle economy and of the increase of the number of the religious orders involved in the missionary work. The need to acquire new territories, to settle the people in the area and, therefore, the inevitable contact with unknown indian people who, in general, represented the main obstacles to the Portuguese willings, estimulated the development of new strategies of control and conquest by the Crown based on local aspects and contexts. We intend to study the institution in order to identify its competences, its area of influence and the mecanisms of its work, observing the making of its resolutions and the ways the directions were made, considering that, due to the diversity of its composition, the Junta das Missões de Pernambuco became a privileged locus to comprehend the different interests in dispute. Considering the jurisdiction of the Junta on the capitanias de fora of northern backlands of the State of Brazil, we intend to investigate its action in the configuration of policies for the indians, knowing that the institution dedicated its efforts to the management of the missionary project, as well as to the viabilization of the metropolitan interests in the area. In other words, we intend to observate not only its missionary dimension, but also its political dimension, keeping in mind that it was an institution that mantained, directly or undirectly, the stability of the Portuguese domain in Pernambuco and in its annexed captaincies. (AU) | |