Amazônia: história, conflitos e memória

Abstract

With this collection of articles and essays gathered in the form of a book, the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Program in Human Sciences, the PPGICH of the State University of Amazonas, reaffirms the nature and interdisciplinary sense that encourages its authors to exercise development its themes, interweaving different areas of knowledge, handling different methodological and epistemological approaches. When choosing the title, we had in mind the close relationship between the history of the Amazon region, chronically marked by conflicts of different natures, ranging from territorial disputes throughout the colonial period with the countries with which it borders and extending up to the present, where the conflicts inherent in the processes arising from internal colonialism are at stake. Internal colonialism is materialized in a wide variety of processes, which spread from the permanent and historical reduction of indigenous lands and the resulting genocidal processes and the displacement of geographical and cultural borders of indigenous peoples in their different degrees of contact and coexistence with the Brazilian population. The Amazon, especially after the growing implementation of postgraduate courses in public universities - federal and state - has been systematically developing studies and research inspired by the most distinct theoretical approaches that consistently circulate in the horizon of these courses, carrying out a real revolution within the scope of historiography produced here. In other words, what we notice in these studies and researches is that their authors have been motivated to promote a radical revision of their epistemological foundations that reach, since the pre-Columbian history of this part of South America, the ethno-history of the indigenous peoples and their modest advances, until history Amazon: History, Conflicts and Contemporary Memory in which the presence of indigenous peoples comes equally enlarging its meaning. On the other hand, the emergence of new archaeological studies has witnessed that there are no demographic gaps in the Amazon along its wide fluvial network and that the remains that have been found and interpreted point to the existence of populations more than 10,000 years ago. Likewise, the The recovery of their cultures within the scope of their immaterial consistency has provided evidence of a wide variety of oral traditions that constitute manifestations of their history yet to be unveiled and recognized. The clearest evidence of these processes of orality and immateriality that has been gaining The written and audiovisual dimension is the growing production of works by indigenous authors, many of which are also expressed through the visual and plastic arts.