Abstract
The article aims to present an important documentary source that has received little attention of historiography and that reports on and analyses the situation of the Indians who worked at the Jesuit college of Sao Paulo: the “Memorial” written by Father Luigi Vincenzo Mamiani, S.J., during a visit to that college around 1700. After situating it in its particular (social, demographic and intellectual) context, we summarize and then analyse its content. We emphasize the use of time categories by Mamiani to characterize and intervene on the material structures of the Sao Paulo region and also a peculiar link between economy, morality and religion . The transcription of the source is attached at the end of this paper. Keywords: College of Sao Paulo, indigenous labour, religious politics.
Highlights
Economia cristã e religiosa política: o “Memorial sobre o governo temporal do colégio de São Paulo”
The article aims to present an important documentary source that has received little attention of historiography and that reports on and analyses the situation of the Indians who worked at the Jesuit college of São Paulo: the “Memorial” written by Father Luigi Vincenzo Mamiani, S.J., during a visit to that college around 1700
After situating it in its particular context, we summarize and analyse its content
Summary
Destas mesmas razões se segue também que é inútil de trabalho seria exclusividade dos jesuítas: esperar que algum morador de S. O “Memorial” de Mamiani pode ser situado justamente numa época de grandes reordenamentos: para ficarmos apenas no que tange diretamente ao conteúdo do texto, as mudanças da economia colonial com a descoberta das minas, e as da própria Companhia de Jesus, após as resoluções de 1696 sobre o controle dos aldeamentos reais. O primeiro remédio (“que se tire o dito Colégio, e que se converta em casa, somente com quatro sujeitos, quantos se podem sustentar com os escravos que tem”) lhe parecia “violento, e será talvez encontrado assim do povo, como da razão do serviço de Deus”; o segundo (“que Sua Majestade assine côngrua para sustento dos Religiosos daquele Colégio”) dependia da magnanimidade que “será dificultoso de se alcançar tão cedo”; assim, parecia restar-lhe apenas a opção do terceiro remédio, “mais fácil, e mais praticável”, qual seja, “mandar buscar pelos mesmos Índios ouro às Minas para comprar negros”. Casa de Velázquez/ Paris, Centre d’Anthropologie Religieuse et Européenne (EHESS), p. 375-399
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