Banca de DEFESA: NATALLY CHRIS DA ROCHA MENINI

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : NATALLY CHRIS DA ROCHA MENINI
DATE: 12/03/2021
TIME: 13:30
LOCAL: videoconferência
TITLE:

"Necessary undesirables": exile gypsies in eighteenth-century Rio de Janeiro

KEY WORDS:

gypsies; banishment; colonization; Portuguese Atlantic Empire; Portuguese America; ethnic-racial relations

PAGES: 197
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUBÁREA: História do Brasil
SUMMARY:

 

The circulation of deprived populations in the societies connected by the Portuguese overseas expansion was accompanied by the need to transform the condemned to the banishment in forced settlers in the Portuguese Atlantic Empire. In this role, the gypsies, who constituted a stigmatized segment and suffered systematic prison and detention penalties in the coastal zones of Brazil and Angola, stood out. During century XVIII the American colony counted on the constant mobility of gypsy plundering by the frontier regions of the captaincies of Bahia, Pernambuco, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro. Especially in the second half of that century Rio de Janeiro started to house in its urban nucleus a sizeable gypsy population that settled in the heap of swamps known at that time as Field of Gypsies (present Campo de Santana) and also counted on the flow of gypsy ranches in the districts of the sertões.

Taking into consideration the efforts to insert the gypsy problem in colonial historiography, this paper will focus on the discussion of the conflicts between the local authorities and the gypsies in the captaincy of Rio de Janeiro during the 18th century. Based on the analysis of documentary sources of administrative content (especially in the form of laws, permits, portfolios, overseas correspondence and official letters), we will try to demonstrate that through ethnic reorganizations and fixed and mobile regroupings in the port city and in the sertões of Rio de Janeiro, became the target of control of the colonial authorities and built different forms of survival and integration in the seventeenth century society.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - CÉLIA CRISTINA DA SILVA TAVARES - UERJ
Externa à Instituição - LARISSA MOREIRA VIANA - UFF
Interna - 1718370 - LUCIANA MENDES GANDELMAN
Presidente - 386989 - MARGARETH DE ALMEIDA GONCALVES
Externo à Instituição - RODRIGO CORRÊA TEIXEIRA - PUCMinas