graduation at História from Universidade de São Paulo (2003), master's at History from Universidade de São Paulo (2009), master's at Histoire et Civilisations from École des hautes études en sciences sociales (2005) and doctorate at Histoire et Civlisations from École des hautes études en sciences sociales (2014). He is currently professor doutor at Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Has experience in History, focusing on History of Brazil Colony, acting on the following subjects: amazônia, história indígena, história dos índios, estado do maranhão e grão pará and trabalho indígena. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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What socio-environmental impacts did early modern colonialism exert on the Amazon River region? And how can understanding this impact using historical methods contribute to the analysis of current environmental challenges and the development of policies to mitigate the destructive effects of climate change? While archaeological studies have shown that the Amazonian natural landscape is la…
As of 2018, the current Brazilian Constitution was ratified thirty years ago. For the first time in Brazil, the 1988 Constitution recognized the different social organizations and cultural traditions of indigenous peoples and guaranteed their original rights to traditionally-occupied lands. Since then, researchers on indigenous issues created a new agenda linked directly to indigenous peo…
The work carried out by the scholarship holder of the project "Between a deep past and an imminent future: human action and the environmental impact of modern colonialism in the Amazon (17th-18th centuries)" will consist of preparing the project website, as well as disseminating the results and materials produced during the research. The planned activities must contribute to the scientifi…
The objective of the research is to carry out a survey of the occurrence of Amazonian plant species of commercial interest to Europeans in colonial documentation. The aim is to draw up a list of the species mentioned, the interest they could have, the exploration techniques (harvesting or production) and, when possible, mention of their location in the territory. The objective will be to …
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The present research project aims to understand the formation and use of the practice of "denaturalization" of Indians, present in the discourses produced by agents of the Portuguese Crown, especially between 1680 and 1755, in the context of the just wars in the Northern Captaincies - spaces that in this period were associated with the so-called Barbarian War. In practice, denaturalizatio…
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 t…
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This project proposes a period of research in the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide, in Australia, under the supervision of Professor Mark Harris, with the aim of deepening the analysis of the displacement and co-optation of indigenous labor between 1680 and 1720 in the Northern Captaincies. In the meantime, the hinterlands of these captaincies were marked by wars of expa…
This research project in Portugal aims to investigate in documents preserved in Portuguese collections, the imposition of the practice of denaturalization of Indians during the period of the so-called Barbarian War, which occurred in the Capitanias do Norte (from Recôncavo Bahia to Rio Grande), between 1650 and 1720. Between the 16th and 18th centuries, in the context of the war of conque…
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