OS XAVANTE E SUA HISTÓRIA PELO OLHAR DOS SALESIANOS BARTOLOMEO GIACCARIA E ADALBERTO HEIDE

Abstract

The basis of this Project was to analyze how dissertations of Bartolomeu Giaccaria and Adalberto Heide contributed to the writing of the Xavante history narrated through oral tradition based on myths, tales and dreams that compose the collective memory of that people. In addition, to demonstrate the importance of the work of the authors in the elaboration of sources documentary composed by transcribed oral reports, photographs, videos, genealogies, sketches dealing with the socio-spatial distribution and illustrations of their own of the Xavante that present cosmologies, social organization and historical experiences Lived by them. In order to reach, it was necessary to analyze the three main works written by Giaccaria and Heide: "Xavante (Auwẽ Uptabi: Authentic People)" (1972), "Jeronimo Xavante Conta" (1975a) and "Jeronimo Xavante Sonha" (1975b); Evidencing how these corpus works and the documentary constructed by the authors were read and used by scholars, mainly anthropologists, researchers from different areas who set out to analyze the various aspects of the living history and social organization of the Xavante. All this problem, was analyzed without disregarding the world view and the social place of the authors as Salesian missionaries, of European origin, who dedicated their lives to the Missions in search of practicing the "charism" and concretizing the dream of Dom Bosco, founder of the Salesian Congregation. In view of, it was necessary to briefly present the history of the founding, the arrival of the Salesians in Brazil and in Mato Grosso, above all, their missionary activity among the indigenous Bororo and Xavante from the twentieth century.