The Upper São Francisco and the Cataguá Mith: contributions to the indigenous history of Minas Gerais
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2004.89667Keywords:
Ethnohistory, Archaeology, São Francisco River, Minas Gerais, Cataguá.Abstract
Several academic works in both ethnohistory and archaeology point to the Upper São Francisco Basin as an area of domain of the “fearsome Cataguá nation”, which supposedly occupied this territory in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This article aims to show, through a comparative analysis of primary and secondary sources that the existence of such a group is unproven, resulting from the early explorer’s habit of coining generalizing ethnic names to different non-Tupi speaking indigenous groups.Downloads
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2004-12-09
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Copyright (c) 2004 Gilmar Henriques, Fernando Costa, Edward Koole
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HENRIQUES, Gilmar; COSTA, Fernando; KOOLE, Edward. The Upper São Francisco and the Cataguá Mith: contributions to the indigenous history of Minas Gerais. Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, São Paulo, Brasil, n. 14, p. 195–208, 2004. DOI: 10.11606/issn.2448-1750.revmae.2004.89667. Disponível em: https://www.journals.usp.br/revmae/article/view/89667.. Acesso em: 19 may. 2024.