A humanidade de ameríndios e africanos em relatos de missionários (1584-1696)
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Revista de Ciências Humanas
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Este artigo aborda as relações entre europeus e africanos/ameríndios, entre o final dos séculos XVI e XVII, com base em crônicas de viagem de missionários. Nesse corpus documental, há conceituações e diagnósticos acerca das alteridades africanas e americanas a partir de referenciais culturais europeus e, acentuadamente, cristãos. Analisando as representações construídas por meio dos embates entre esses homens, buscaremos perceber a construção discursiva do outro, feita pela atribuição de significado às práticas rituais e cotidianas dos grupos não-europeus, com o intuito de definir a natureza desses indivíduos, conceituando-os ora como homens e possíveis cristãos, ora como bárbaros.
This paper approaches the relations between Europeans and Africans/ Amerindians, between the late 16th and 17th centuries, based on reports of missionaries. In this documental corpus, there are conceptions and diagnoses about the African and American otherness, from European cultural references and, markedly, Christian. Analyzing the representations constructed in the clashes among these men, we look for perceiving the discourses about the other, made by attribution of meaning to the ritual and daily practices of non-Europeans groups, in order to define their nature, conceptualizing them sometimes as men and possible Christians, sometimes as barbarians.
This paper approaches the relations between Europeans and Africans/ Amerindians, between the late 16th and 17th centuries, based on reports of missionaries. In this documental corpus, there are conceptions and diagnoses about the African and American otherness, from European cultural references and, markedly, Christian. Analyzing the representations constructed in the clashes among these men, we look for perceiving the discourses about the other, made by attribution of meaning to the ritual and daily practices of non-Europeans groups, in order to define their nature, conceptualizing them sometimes as men and possible Christians, sometimes as barbarians.
