Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: LAIS MARIA DA COSTA SILVA

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STUDENT : LAIS MARIA DA COSTA SILVA
DATE: 18/09/2026
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Meet - Online
TITLE:

Indigenous Women under the Ideals of the Pombaline Diretório: Territorialization, Gender, and Indigenous Agency in the Northern Captaincies (Eighteenth Century)

KEY WORDS:

History and Spaces; Diretório dos Índios; Indigenous Women; Northern Captaincies (Eighteenth Century); Territorialization; Agency.

PAGES: 67
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

This research investigates the historical experiences of Indigenous women in the Luso-Brazilian colonial context of the eighteenth century, with a focus on the impacts of territorialization mechanisms and indigenist legislation, such as the Royal Charter of 1755, the Diretório dos Índios (1757–1798), and the Direção (1759–1762). The study problematizes the forms of representation of these women in historiography, which has been marked by silencing, exoticization, and androcentric readings. Drawing on gender perspectives and in dialogue with the New Indigenous History, it seeks to understand how colonial social and political structures shaped their lives, while also highlighting spaces of agency and existence. The analysis considers the roles of Indigenous women in different spheres—domestic, urban, political, legal, and Christian—emphasizing that, even when subjected to contexts of violence and subordination, they developed strategies of negotiation and reinterpretation of colonial spaces. By shifting the focus from absence to traces of presence, this research aims to broaden the understanding of the centrality of these women in the formation of colonial society. The primary sources include the Diretório dos Índios (1757) and the Direção (1759), analyzed in articulation with a diverse documentary corpus comprising chronicles, administrative, and ecclesiastical records. Given the breadth and multidimensionality of the subject, the study is grounded in this plural repertoire of evidence to examine the impacts of territorialization mechanisms on Indigenous women’s spatialities.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1879280 - LIGIO JOSE DE OLIVEIRA MAIA
Interno - 2432663 - HELDER ALEXANDRE MEDEIROS DE MACEDO
Externa à Instituição - KARINA MOREIRA RIBEIRO DA SILVA E MELO - UPE
Externa à Instituição - ELISA FRÜHAUF GARCIA - UFF