A cerâmica dos Cataguases no Caminho Velho da Estrada Real e a História Indígena em tempos presentes: ensaio de uma cartografia transepistêmica

Abstract

This thesis arose from a “calling” from ceramics - this transversal “character” which travels through the fields of History, Arts, Archaeology, Anthropology, Geography and other “humanities” disciplines. Emerging in the ancient territory of the Cataguases and crossing the colonial Caminho Velho, now part of the touristic Estrada Real, ceramics is approached here as a “sociocultural agent”, a “document” and a “primary source” for the writing of a long-term Indigenous History, from the beginning of the territorialization of indigenous cultures in our diverse landscapes to the urgent political issues of the present, including indigenous land rights as secured by the 1988 Brazilian Constitution. Across “times-temporalities”, “spaces-territorialities”, and diverse “systems of thought”, ceramics impels us toward a cartographic movement in this essay, from transdisciplinarity to transepistemology, in the search to translate its memories into History.