Banca de DEFESA: RANAY NÓBREGA TEIXEIRA DE LIMA

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STUDENT : RANAY NÓBREGA TEIXEIRA DE LIMA
DATE: 24/03/2026
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: videoconferência
TITLE:

Friar Bernardino de Sahagún and the historiography of the evangelization of New Spain: appropriations, silences, and interpretative disputes (sixteenth to twenty-first centuries).

KEY WORDS:

Friar Bernardino de Sahagún. Evangelization. History of Mexico.

PAGES: 210
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

This dissertation analyzes the historiographical production devoted to the work and activities of Friar Bernardino de Sahagún, a sixteenth-century Franciscan missionary, by examining the different interpretations constructed around his figure within the context of the evangelization of New Spain. Situated within the fields of Colonial Latin American History and the History of Historiography, the study aims to understand how Sahagún has been appropriated by distinct historiographical traditions from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries and how these readings reflect broader debates on conquest, colonization, conversion, and Indigenous agency. The research adopts a historiographical methodology, combining the analysis of Sahagún’s own writings—particularly the Historia General de las Cosas de Nueva España—with historical studies, critical essays, and interpretations produced in diverse intellectual and political contexts. The analysis demonstrates that the reception of Sahagún’s work did not follow a linear or cumulative trajectory, but rather was marked by discontinuities, silences, and reinterpretations, giving rise to multiple images of the friar: the Franciscan committed to catechesis, the censored author, the intellectual appropriated by Mexican nationalist projects, the cultural mediator, and the forerunner of ethnographic practices. The results indicate that these representations were closely connected to shifts in historiographical approaches and to changing political and academic sensibilities regarding the colonial past, particularly concerning Indigenous peoples and the violence inherent in the process of conquest. It is concluded that debates surrounding Friar Bernardino de Sahagún remain central to understanding the constitutive tensions of the American colonial experience and to critically reflecting on the writing of history in the present.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - ANDERSON ROBERTI DOS REIS - UFMT
Externo à Instituição - BRUNO DA SILVA - UNIFESSPA
Presidente - 2263727 - LUIS GUILHERME ASSIS KALIL
Externo à Instituição - LUIZ ESTEVAM DE OLIVEIRA FERNANDES - UNICAMP
Interna - 1647918 - PATRICIA SOUZA DE FARIA CARVANO