Os indígenas na primeira história da Paraíba: um estudo sobre a História da Província da Parahyba de Maximiano Lopes Machado

Abstract

This work attempted to develop a study about Maximiano Lopes Machado s book História da provincia da Parayba, noticing the manner that he inserts the indigenous from Paraíba, mainly the Tabajaras and Potiguaras tribes, in his work. Even finished in 1885, this book was published only in 1912 by Geography and History Institute of Paraíba. This institution, created in 1905, recognized that intellectual, with Irineu Joffily and Irineu Ferreira Pinto, as founders of Paraíba historiography. The GHIP was founded to enable a formulation of an Official History of Paraíba, emphasizing a common history for all paraibanos, forging an identity for those who were born in this territory, named as the paraibanidade. Founded during the republican period, this historiography attempted to raise a history that showed, among other matters, how Paraíba had collaborated to the advent of that political regime. In this sense, it was attempted to comprehend how Machado s work, produced in XIX Century, before The Republic Proclamation, could have contributed to this historiograpical project elaborated by GHIP. Accordingly, attempting to understand the manner how História da provincial da Parahyba has contributed to forge a paraibana identity and its perspective influence the way that the paraibana society recognizes the indigenous in its historical, social and identity compositions. Therefore, it was sought to investigate about an indigenous historical culture of Paraíba s according to the concentration area in History and Historical Culture in which this research is linked.