Contingências e Metacontingências na etnogênese dos Tapuios do Carretão(GO).

Abstract

This dissertation offers an analytical and behavioural interpretation of functional relations in major environmental events found in the ethnogenesis of the Tapuios do Carretão (Goiás State, Brazil), events which result from a series of indigenist policies. Hence data was collected from Ossami de Moura's 2008 book Os Tapuios do Carretão: etnogênese de um grupo indígena do Estado de Goiás. Data collection and analysis employed the method proposed by Todorov et al. in 2004, following which book excerpts were selected and categorized so as to identify preceding events, as well as responses and consequences of the behaviour of individuals e.g. indians, missionaries, and settlers present in Moura's narrative. The major cultural practices under analysis were: 1) the establishment of the indigenist policy in the sixteenth century, 2) descimento expeditions and touring catecheses which led to the rise of bandeira expeditions and indigenous settlings, 3) defensive bandeiras (sixteenth century) and offensive bandeiras (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries), 4) the transformation of indigenous settlings (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries) into model settlings (eighteenth century), 5) the indigenist policy of the Marquis of Pombal, and 6) the resulting behavioural changes of settled indians. Macrocontingencies and metacontingencies enabled the identification of individual and cultural consequences, as well as of the evolution stemming from the abandonment of certain practices and the adoption of new ones in this process of selection by consequences marking the ethnogenesis of the Tapuios do Carretão.