THE THEATER OF THE CLAIM: RITUALITY AND TERRITORIALIZATION IN THE CREATION OF INDIAN VILLAGES ANTIQUE CAPITANY OF PORTO SEGURO (1764/1772)

• Main Author: Francisco Cancela
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco 2013-06-01
• Series: Clio: Revista de Pesquisa Histórica
• Subjects: Rite of institution; Villages of Indians; Captaincy of Porto Seguro
• Online Access: https://periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/revistaclio/article/view/24400/19751

This paper examines the ritual acclamation of Indian villages created in the former Captaincy of Porto Seguro in the second half of the eighteenth century. Borrowing the idea thompsoniana dramatization of the exercise of power, the approach presented here seeks to demonstrate how the acts of foundations of new villages demonstrating not only the absolute royal power, but also all the principles, values and institutions that sought to legitimize and ensure dominium playback on a Portuguese territory inserted under the Old Colonial System. Performing while a reinvented tradition, these rites of institution adapted to an audience primarily indigenous, embodying the purpose of demarcating a boundary between an area supposedly savage and civilized another hypothetically.