VAST AND BREAST: NON-WHITE AND MESTIZO WOMEN IN THE SERTÕES OF THE RIO GRANDE (RIBEIRA DO SERIDÓ, 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY)
Non-white and mestizo women. Hinterland. Seridó.
This work intends to study non-white and mestizo women in the hinterland of the Capitania do Rio Grande, Ribeira do Seridó, and aims to analyze the representations elaborated about these female types in the historical documentation of the 18th and 19th centuries, mobilizing the concepts of quality, condition and dynamics of mestizajes. Through the reconstruction of female trajectories, it is intended to understand their social and economic dynamics, construction of solidarity networks and their strategies in search of social mobility. It also investigates their patrimony, crony networks and their representations in criminal proceedings. It uses parish document sources (baptisms, marriages and deaths registries), judicial sources (post-mortem inventories, manumission letters and criminal proceedings) and sesmarial sources, through the quantitative and qualitative cross-referencing of documentation, supported by the methodological instruments of the evidential paradigm and the onomastic method, in dialogue with a micro-historical approach.