Etnia e legitimidade na vila imperial de ega: Contribuições para a História Indígena na Amazônia 1842 – 1851.

Abstract

This research was made after intense work in the archives of the Prelature of Tefé with the objective of recovering through the parish sources the information of how the families were being constituted based on the ethnicity and legitimacy in the colonial and Imperial space of the Villa of Ega. This research is divided into two chapters where the first chapter discusses the Indigenous Legislation in the Amazon (1750-1850) and the Amazon in this period in its political organization will appear within this clipping as the State of the Pará Grain and Capitania De São José do Rio Negro (1750 - 1823), later to the Province of Grao Pará and Comarca del Alto Amazonas (1823 - 1849) until 1850 with Province of Amazonas, having in 1851 the district of Tefé and in 1855 the District of Solimões. In this first chapter is a panorama of the gigantic area of ​​what is now the Amazon, accompanied by movements such as the Royal Charter of power from 1798 to 1838 with the regulation of the missions of 1845 and in this half Cabanagem from 1835 to 1840 the purpose of this work is to establish a link in showing how the figure of the Indian appears, of the Negro of the Amazonian mestizo. The second chapter presents the questions about ethnicity and legitimacy and the population composition through the acts of baptisms, where they are perceived in the description of godparents, the modalities of marriages, the definitions, multiplicity of people occupying positions in the environment of the village of Ega. The exhibition of graphs demonstrating the population composition of adults and children.