O BARRO NA MÃO DO OLEIRO: RESSIGNIFICAÇÕES E SENSIBILIDADE ATRAVÉS DA CULTURA MATERIAL.

Abstract

Facing the numerous possibilities of discussions, presented by the material traces of the Historical Archaeological Site Maria Mendes, located in Campo Limpo, Goias, it was chosen for this essay the possibility that best represents the context of the site. The possibility of, through the diversity of printed decoration on the site s pottery, understanding the decorative expressions as a form of socio-cultural representation, brokered by the potter, during their life trajectory, from Africa to Brazil, within the historical context of the Province of Goiás, in the early nineteenth century. Brokered from their influences, which have been resignified and printed on ceramic through a sensitive and creative style. Possibility that splits from the main objective, also to understand the roles of indigenous, African and European influences on the end result of the product of the potter. Given the presence of Africans signs, belonging to different groups and there, in the ceramic set, it seems to have found ways to coexist the identification of decorative expressions belonging to the Guarani people in an area of the province of Goias historically occupied by the Kayapo Southern people, two culturally distinct groups, also in view of the similarities between some fragments, ceramic plates and pots, and the forms and decorations of European crockery and vessels. These understandings are against the interdisciplinary way to understand the culture, proposed by the theories of Cultural History, which enabled a dialogue between History and Archaeology in a less compartmentalized way or limited to the use of a science by another one just as a source.