Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú

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The present study is an attempt to write an ethnohistory of the Southern Caiapó, a Gê-speaking people of Central Brazil, whose modern descendants are the Panará (also called the Kreen-Akrore). It examines the Caiapó encounter with the Portuguese and, later, Brazilians, beginning in the early seventeenth century, when the Caiapó were known as the Bilreiros, until they disappeared as an autonomous people in the beginning of the twentieth century, at which point the Caiapó were believed extinct. It draws on a number of previously ignored or unexamined documents, as well as the available ethnography of the Panará, to flesh out three centuries of Caiapó contact, confrontation, and accommodation to the frontier that expanded into their territory. It is argued that the Caiapó took captives in their raids, something they supposedly did not do, and, unlike other Gê-speakers, most notoriously the Northern Kaiapó, their villages were surprisingly stable during contact and conflict, did not fission into mutually antagonistic entities that warred with one another, and participated in large inter-village raids against Portuguese and Brazilian settlements. The traditional narrative of the so-called "pacification"of the Caiapó is challenged by detailing how remarkably violent, even frightening, the Portuguese found this "conquest" to be. Finally, it is also argued that the Caiapó, like their Panará descendants, possessed matrilineal clans and divided the social universe into panará ("people"), hipe ("enemies/others"), and Índios ("Indians"), and that this had important ramifications for the historical trajectory of the their encounter with the frontier.

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