Por uma história incorporada do Chaco : cosmotécnicas de produção do corpo e da historicidade indígena no século XVIII

Abstract

The production of historical knowledge is always mediated by the epistemological structure that constitutes the means of collective legitimization of knowledge, as well as the historians’ methodological choices to approach historical sources. This investigation searches to locate the immanence of historical knowledge about American indigenous people in its own historicity and context of production, bringing about the political and cultural conditions that lead this historiography inside its colonial and modern frameworks, inasmuch it inherited these disciplinary references. Therefore, we elaborate the critics of knowledge geopolitics by supporting a methodological apparatus, to analyze the colonial documents, that’s in consonance with indigenous concepts and perspectives of history. To make that effort, we came to investigate four Jesuit missionaries works, that developed their labour with the indigenous people of Chaco during the exile after 1767. Looking to deepen the understanding of notions like body and historicity to the indigenous people of Chaco, we have come to question the documents in a way to focus on the missionaries affects in their intense relations with the indigenous people, analyzing the cosmological clash that deeply transformed the region landscape. From a historical and anthropological interdisciplinary approach, we propose an investigation of the indigenous body practices and rites through concepts of cosmotechnics and perspectivism as a creative engineering of worlding and diplomacy in their cosmopolitic conflicts with human and other-than-human beings. We intend, in this way, to contribute to the rethinking of indigenous historiography and theory of history, so as to include the modes of historicity that are alternative, divergent and plural.