Ventura e Desventura no Rio Ribeira de Iguape

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5771309
AutoresGabriela Segarra Martins Paes (0000-0001-9073-0696, autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Data de publicação2014-03-06
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoTHESIS
EditoraUniversidade de São Paulo. Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11606/t.8.2014.tde-13052014-112252
OpenAlexW1572806795
IdiomaPT
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas5

This research approaches the importance of the waters of Ribeira de Iguape River to the history of Ribeira Valley.This river has been exploited since the beginning of the colonization.In the sixteenth century, expeditions used to search for precious metals from river mouth.In the following centuries, the waters continued to be exploited and precious metals were discovered in the Upper and Middle Valley, where metal mines were established.In the late eighteenth century, mining went into decline and rice began to be cultivated on a commercial scale.The rice crop followed the bed of the Ribeira River and its tributaries, due to the fertility of soils, the energy devices to move water and the docking sites for canoes.Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, many Africans landed in the region to work in mines and plantations.Africans and Europeans inscribed in the waters of Ribeira River their myths and beliefs, among them, we will highlight the water negro (negro d'água).Also, in the same waters it was washed the image of Lord Good Jesus of Iguape, the most celebrated saint of Ribeira Valley.The Ribeira river were also utilized for rites of divination and healing.Myths and beliefs were analyzed within the Atlantic perspective, understanding the cultural formations created on American soil as compiled from the meeting of diverse people, brought into contact under slavery and owners of different worldviews.We discussed the evangelization occurred in Central Africa and in Ribeira Valley, then we highlighted that, on both sides of the Atlantic, the catholicism was reinterpreted according to local beliefs.We also analyzed the presence of African beliefs in the Ribeira Valley, especially the cult of the dead and the rites of divination and healing

Alluvium · Archaeology · Cartography · Geography · Geomorphology · Mythology · SAINT · Tributary · History · History of Colonial Brazil · Geology