Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: LIANA RAYSSA MOTA AMORIM

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : LIANA RAYSSA MOTA AMORIM
DATE: 10/11/2025
TIME: 16:00
LOCAL: videoconferência
TITLE:

Turiaçu-Gurupi: The Pacification Efforts in a Space and Its People (19th-20th Centuries)

KEY WORDS:

Turiaçu-Gurupi. Maranhão. Paternalistic Policies. Labor. Resistance.

PAGES: 118
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

Over the long term, the Turiaçu-Gurupi region was regarded as problematic and difficult to
access for colonial projects. The justification for this reputation lay in the composition of the
people who inhabited this border territory between Maranhão and Pará: a population
predominantly of Indigenous and Black descent, considered uncivilized and unaccustomed to
work. This view, however, does not align with the material reality, as the region was an
economically and socially dynamic space. There, Indigenous and Black peoples cultivated
cassava, rice, and produced copaiba oil, which served both for their subsistence and for trade.
This enabled them to establish networks of contact that extended beyond Turiaçu-Gurupi.
These networks, in turn, facilitated the expansion of interethnic interactions, resulting in a
mosaic of social relations marked by friendship or hostility, depending on the individuals
involved.What becomes clear is that the representations of incivility and idleness attributed to
these peoples were closely linked to attempts to impose paternalistic projects in the region.
These projects sought to strip Indigenous and Black individuals of their autonomy regarding
their ways of relating to one another, to work, to their territories, and, ultimately, to the state.
The history of the Maranhão frontier as a stage for administrative paternalistic policies helps
expand our understanding of the diversity of processes in the formation of Brazil's economic
and ethnic frontiers. It allows for the historical reconstruction of the formation of social
spaces and groups over time and, finally, highlights the persistence of labor precarity
practices. These practices have historically affected and continue to affect the majority of the
impoverished population of Maranhão, which is largely composed of the descendants of
racialized subjects. Thus, our research aims to contribute to the process of connecting
Indigenous and Black histories within the worlds of work. It takes into consideration that
attempts to discredit and precarious their labor are part of a project that was not simply
accepted but encountered resistance through numerous strategies.

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - ***.450.301-** - VANIA MARIA LOSADA MOREIRA - UFRRJ
Externo à Instituição - ANDRÉ LUIS BEZERRA FERREIRA - OUTRO
Externa à Instituição - SUENY DIANA OLIVEIRA DE SOUZA - UFPA