Notícias da Viagem por entre vilas e aldeias de indígenas sublevados na Bahia colonial: edição semidiplomática, edição interpretativa e glossário

Abstract

In this study are presented the semi-diplomatic and interpretive editions of the 18th century manuscript Notícia da Viagem, e Jornadas, que fêz o Capitão Domingos Alves Branco Muniz Barreto Entre os Índios sublevados nas Villas, e Aldêas das Comarcas dos Ilhéus, e Norte na Capitania da Bahia, which records the news of Captain Muniz Barreto's passage through several villages in the state of Bahia, Brazil. The study is supplemented by brief considerations about the social history of Bahia and an analysis of aspects regarding the writing of the document, considering the paleographic approaches, in addition to a lexicographical product - a small glossary, put together from selected lexical units of the document, aiming for a better understanding about the uses of language based on the author's choices. This research is inserted within the area of Philology, although articulated in an interdisciplinary perspective with Historiography, Paleography and Lexicography. The edited document records aspects concerning the culture and ways of life of distinct indigenous populations who used to live in those regions, their experiences and their forms of resistance, through uprisings, in the face of acts of violence and injustice that marked the daily life of Colonial Bahia and Portuguese America. Thus, even though the author’s intention was merely to boast about his achievements for the Crown’s sake, the story told by Captain Muniz Barreto does not fail to reveal the narratives of struggle of those peoples. In this sense, the philological research, with the document Notícia da Viagem, also contributes to the discussion about colonial history, indigenous memories – focusing on the construction of narratives that are passed on to us, over time – and to reaffirm the importance preservation and accessibility to historical documentation through the Philology.