Evuevi : o protagonismo Payaguá-Sarigué nas águas do Alto Paraguai na primeira metade do século XVIII

Abstract

In the present work, we will be reflecting on the protagonism of the Payaguá-Sarigué indigenous peoples, expressed through the conception of war that unfolded in the skillful negotiations of products acquired in ambushes occurred in the waters of the upper Paraguay, during the Portuguese expansion to the mines of the Cuiabá. The reports used as a source for the analysis refer to this temporality – first half of the 18th century – and were written by the Jesuit Spanish Pedro Lozano. In order to realize the agency and indigenous protagonism, we rely mainly on the work of John Manoel Monteiro, Manuela Carneiro da Cunha and Maria Celestino de Almeida, who constitute what is considered as “new indigenous history”, which since the 1970s has guided scientific production in the field of Human Sciences, marked especially by the approximation between History and Anthropology.