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Memorias: Revista Digital de Historia y Arqueología desde el Caribe
On-line version ISSN 1794-8886
Abstract
CARDOSO DE MELLO, Louise. From Cayari to Madeira: Historical processes of ethnogenesis in South-West Amazonia during the colonial period. memorias [online]. 2015, n.26, pp.360-391. ISSN 1794-8886. https://doi.org/10.14482/memor.26.7353.
This article presents a study of the interethnic relations in the Amazonian region of the Madeira River during the 17th and 18th centuries. The review of some of its main ethnohistorical sources has allowed for the identification of processes of ethnogenesis that are examined and presented as case studies, namely the phenomena of fleeing and the maroon communities (mocambos), and the Tupinambarana and Mura ethnogenesis. With this, it further aims at pointing out the groups' creative capacities, refashioned identities and roles, as well as the different strategies developed, granting them not only voice, but also agency. By doing so, this paper intends to showcase how the analysis of interethnic relations and processes of ethnogenesis may contribute to revisit the ethnohistory of the region of the Madeira River, a history of domination marked by colonial expansion in a space ideologically perceived as empty, discontinuous, devoid of actors or action.
Keywords : Ethnogenesis; ethnicity; Madeira River; Amazonia; Tupinambarana; maroon communities; Mura.