MANACAPURU, ÉS TU TERRA DE ÍNDIOS MURA? A diversidade etno-histórica à luz dos registros históricos e arqueológicos

Abstract

In this work we bring discussion problematized by the idea left by the settlers who attributed the Mura ethnic exclusivity, as founder of the village that gave rise to the city of Manacapuru. Behind this historical statement, we have the logical negation of the possible ethnic diversity of the region, which was decharacterized by the decimated expansion, with population, and the Westernization inflicted on the remaining groups. In this sense, we seek to reaffirm such indigenous ethnic diversity launched hands of the ethnohistorical method, which allows the use of ethno-historical and archaeological data, especially from sources of chroniclers and the archaeological record, to demonstrate the multi-ethnic group that predominated in the Amazon region of the past, whose consolidate it.