Manáos uma Aldeia que virou Paris: saberes e fazeres indígenas na Belle Époque Baré 1845-1910

Abstract

The Dissertation shows aspects of everyday life, indigenous knowledge and practices in Manaus during the period of the Belle Époque. We work on that every day the livings, the resistance, the city's cultural practices to the detriment of the presence of indigenous people who lived here. We start from the acceptance of the Indians as acting subjects and cultural property of whoever has an ethos even if driven. Much has been said about the Belle Époque Manauara, and the question of the Indian, always separately. This Dissertation has united these two themes in order to highlight the indigenous aspect present in the world "modern luxury" brought by the Belle Époque, and crystallized by celebratory historiography. Manaus grew, adorned-to cater to a specific group of the city: society, the elite enriched by the extraction of chewing gum. This research is focused on, Indians in Belle Époque Manauara, and aims to make an investigative analysis and descriptive of what happened to them in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, analyse the speech that was built on the city and its population. We work with some theorists of modernity, to establish a parallel between the city of Manaus and the other capitals of the world that reconfigured if redevelopment for the parameters of what had of the art at the time. We see that between the city shown in postcards and photographs, and the town of experiences, there was a beauty limit the detriment that the attempt of unity faced resistance by the presence of a wide ethnic and cultural diversity. The prospect of document analysis was the New History and New Cultural History, which in the tradition of the Annales school, a critical analysis trying to view the "position of the low," which just appear in official speeches as protagonists so do new story is to listen and give voice to new parts. With the reading of the sources, we realize how the Indians made their way, defence tactics, to continue residing in the city, which was being driven. Large buildings will appear in Manáos then, bringing an architecture and decoration foreign, through the Baroque, Rococo, Art Nouveau, but always alluding, even romanticized native culture. We will see how gave up the cultural hybridity between Indians and whites in their social practices in this phase of the history of the city. Speaking of the Indians still arouses feelings of disgust and fascination. This happens because there are people who believe and embody the culture of indigenous peoples as "undeveloped", stagnant time. Now, if in contemporary times, in the XXI century, it is thought so, how would this imaginary in the late nineteenth century, the advent of the twentieth century, and the period of "fin de siècle", the Belle Époque, 150 years ago? This research, to analyse the life of the city, try to show the imagination of elites, bystanders, Travelers on the natives, their habits and customs. We will investigate and analyse what happened to Manaus Indians during this period.