Röhrig Assunção, Matthias (2024) OS VACILOS DO COLONIZADOR: transferências de vilas e aldeias no Maranhão [THE COLONIZER’S FALTERINGS: transfers of towns and villages in Maranhão, Brazil]. Outros Tempos: Pesquisa em Foco - História, 21 (37). pp. 278-303. DOI https://doi.org/10.18817/ot.v21i37.1144
Röhrig Assunção, Matthias (2024) OS VACILOS DO COLONIZADOR: transferências de vilas e aldeias no Maranhão [THE COLONIZER’S FALTERINGS: transfers of towns and villages in Maranhão, Brazil]. Outros Tempos: Pesquisa em Foco - História, 21 (37). pp. 278-303. DOI https://doi.org/10.18817/ot.v21i37.1144
Röhrig Assunção, Matthias (2024) OS VACILOS DO COLONIZADOR: transferências de vilas e aldeias no Maranhão [THE COLONIZER’S FALTERINGS: transfers of towns and villages in Maranhão, Brazil]. Outros Tempos: Pesquisa em Foco - História, 21 (37). pp. 278-303. DOI https://doi.org/10.18817/ot.v21i37.1144
Abstract
The high number of transfers of towns and villages in colonial and 19th century Maranhão was due to various causes. One of them was the unsuitability of the sites chosen for the urban centres to be developed, such as banks of rivers subject to flooding. If those transfers were the result of an environment hostile to the plans and intentions of the colonizers, they were also caused by the hostility of the natives of the land, who opposed their enslavement. When captured or "ransomed" by the settlers, or taken down to missionary villages (in so-called “descimentos”), the natives were not only forced to work, but also suffered from epidemics such as smallpox. Suchlarge death toll in turn led to villages being abandoned or relocated. Finally, local disputes between elites only led to changes in the territoriality and insignia of municipal power, without necessarily implying a transfer of settlements. The article explores these themes based mainly on the case of the towns and villages of eastern Maranhão, the region between the ocean and the Itapecuru and Parnaíba rivers,up tothe surroundings of Caxias.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Maranhão; Foundation of cities; Environment |
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 01 Oct 2024 13:31 |
Last Modified: | 01 Oct 2024 13:31 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/37864 |
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