Da cultura da guerra a paz colonial: notícias sobre um gentio Kayapó

Abstract

The presente dissertation have the pretension to bring unstressed a local history that was find obscured and neglect by theoritical fields of history and anthropology, and this, the history of the indigenous group Kayapó of Triangulo Mineiro. It is necessary a combination of theoretical fields for best comprehensions of this peoples, and thus, the essay proposes to work for a historical ethnographic case, brings with himself crucial questions of the relationship of the contact between the indians and the not-indians, with that we can understand the indigenous peoples like a aware agent of his history, being this individuals capable to do useful of a social praxis, in both sense, material, how the subjective, to see the societal chances what happens during and after contact, the research materials consisted in part of a historical documentation published and unpublished, read from the evidential paradigm and ethnographic projection method.