Construction of Spatiality in colonial Pernambuco and the process of indigenous and Afro invisibility

Abstract

In the 1990s, Human and Social Sciences began to distance themselves from taxonomic methodologies that categorize human groups into social classes, analyzing their identities from a production and consumption perspective. New methodological practices emerged from Cultural History and Historical Anthropology moving towards understanding the constructions and expressions of human groups, in their complex relationships with their socio-environmental and socio-cultural spatialities materialized in their geographic, water, pharmacological, agricultural knowledge and also experienced in their cosmologies, rites, languages ​​and traditions. The concept of identity was attributed to these human expressions, the identification of which was carried out based on the understanding of the construction of physical, geographic territories alongside the territories of experiences and survivals of human groups, transmitted over time, through different traditions of oral narratives. and visual aspects described in the chronicles and official documents of the colonizers, but also present in the architecture of the villages, in the composition of the imagery, in the painting and in the morphology of the artistic elements. In Pernambuco, in the colonial period (17th and 18th centuries), we propose an identification and analysis of contemporary existences between the territories of indigenous socio-cultural and socio-environmental knowledge and traditions bordering the spatialities invaded by the institutional colonizing actions of the Catholic Church and the Iberian states.