Public agents, agriculture and land ownership in the villages of the Amazon, decades of 1840-1850
Abstract
The purpose of this text is to demonstrate how public agents conceive land ownership in nineteenth century Amazonian settlements, using as interpretive elements discourses that involved agricultural activity as an instrument for changing the behavior of village settled Indians. It is necessary to understand that the institution of the right to use the land, that is, the guarantees of the Indians’ permanence and the use of the resources available in the villages were depended on two juxtaposed actions: regular land occupation and agriculture. It should be emphasized that the requirements for the exercise of land domination by the Indians and the forms of acceptance and denial depended on the social groups involved in the process, that is, the understanding of ownership by indigenous groups was a result not only of consensus, of culture and institutional constraints, but also of power relations and disputes over the social legitimacy of claims.
Keywords: agriculture, property and villages.
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