Histoire d’un projet indigéniste aux frontières du public et du privé (Brésil, 1840-1860)

Abstract

This article describes the indigenist project that João da Silva Machado (later Baron of Antonina) formulated for Guarani indigenous people of the Brazilian States of São Paulo, Paraná and Mato Grosso between 1840 and 1860. The choice to revisit this subject is both historiographical and methodological. Until recently, the historiography of indigenist projects thought the practical management and administration of Indians exclusively from a « State » perspective, obliterating the participation of other actors. The study of a specific situation, rooted in time and space, thus illuminates the private dimensions of an action often though of as carried out exclusively in the public domain.

Keywords

• history
• indigenism
• guarani