https://tedebc.ufma.br/jspui/handle/tede/1279 2026-07-16T04:02:16Z https://tedebc.ufma.br/jspui/handle/tede/7115 Título: As interfaces de uma história oficial: missionários pentecostais e o contexto socioeconômico em Belém do Pará (1893-1910) Autor: PEREIRA, Suellem de Jesus Primeiro orientador: SANTOS, Lyndon de Araújo Abstract: I address the social and economic context at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, when Swedish Pentecostal missionaries arrived in the capital of Pará (Belém) in 1911. I use the newspaper A República from the Republican Club (PA). The objective is to show the other discursive and historical side of the arrival of the Pentecostal missionaries who founded the Assemblies of God, and not only the narrative emphasized in the Official History of the Assemblies of God. I do not intend to delegitimize or pass judgment on the official history, but to bring to light the socioeconomic context in which the missionaries arrived upon disembarking in Belém, Pará. I understand that the discourse of any religious institution is constructed upon knowledge and understanding of the Official (original) History; that is, that every religious institution originated in a given period of time (within a specific historical context, endowed with external implications and influences), formalizing through biographies, resolutions, books, etc., the history of its own religion, while making other narratives related to it invisible. I use Michel Foucault's book *The Archaeology of Knowledge* (2008), which formulated the term "utterance" as a formal and scientific form of knowledge, a legitimate and regulatory knowledge that undergoes discursive changes throughout history. This allows for the comparative capture of the singularities of a theme, influenced by external circumstances such as the politics, economics, and religion of its time. This type of comparison is not aimed at seeking the originality of the discourse, nor at revealing external influences, but rather at the comparative analysis of the utterance (knowledge)—its regularities and particularities. Instituição: Universidade Federal do Maranhão Tipo do documento: Dissertação 2026-06-11T00:00:00Z https://tedebc.ufma.br/jspui/handle/tede/7101 Título: “Por todos esses sertões em que buscava se ocupar”: Guerras e alianças entre indígenas e os luso-brasileiros nos sertões do Piauí e Maranhão na segunda metade do século XVIII Autor: SILVA, Esmeralda Lima da Primeiro orientador: NAVARRO, Alexandre Guida Abstract: The occupation of the backlands of the captaincies of Maranhão and Piauí, in the 18th century, occurred amid numerous conflicts with the indigenous peoples who occupied and controlled these backlands. This dispute over the territory between Indians and Portuguese intensified even more in the second half of the 18th century, with the occupation movement driven by the corrals and cattle farms in the region. This conquering movement undertaken by sertanists led to the deterritorialization of indigenous peoples and constant instability in colonial settlements, which were sometimes controlled by the Portuguese and sometimes by the indigenous people. This dispute over land produced tensions, wars, conflicts, but also negotiations, agreements and alliances between Indians and Portuguese. In this sense, this dissertation seeks to discuss the expansion and Luso-Brazilian settlement in the backlands of Maranhão and Piauí, but above all seeking to understand the different forms of resistance of indigenous peoples. Seeking to understand how they, faced with different situations and contexts caused by the invasion of their territories, reacted and implemented different survival strategies. Instituição: Universidade Federal do Maranhão Tipo do documento: Dissertação 2023-09-11T00:00:00Z https://tedebc.ufma.br/jspui/handle/tede/7004 Título: A festa da Juçara no Maracanã: reunindo tradições e identidades sob a perspectiva do patrimônio imaterial (1971-1985) Autor: COSTA, Ruan Matheus Martins Primeiro orientador: OLIVEIRA, Maria Izabel Barboza de Morais Abstract: The Maracanã neighborhood is located in the rural area of São Luís do Maranhão, considered one of the oldest neighborhoods in the capital. The Maracanã community has become popularly known as a space for different cultural events, among which the Festa da Juçara stands out, held since the 1970s. This study sought to analyze the Festa da Juçara in Maracanã as intangible heritage and the construction of this tradition in the cultural landscape of Maranhão identity between the years 1971 and 1985, aiming to contemplate the approach of Oral History for the analysis surrounding the memories and identity relations with the festival today. The methodological approach adopted necessarily involved: bibliographic research, with the survey of academic productions in articles, books and book chapters, dissertations, theses, among others; The documentary research, conducted based on records from the Public Archive, the newspapers O Imparcial and Jornal do Dia/O Estado do Maranhão from the Benedito Leite Library, as well as documents made available by the Historical and Geographical Institute of Maranhão (IHGM), also employed the methodology of Oral History, considering the narratives of the interlocutors as forms of life testimonies. The target audience of this study was the merchants of the festival, highlighting these statements in conjunction with written sources to understand the context of this celebration in the past and present. Starting from the premise that different festive spaces with less media exposure are threatened by the advance of capitalism, it would be inaccurate to say that they are doomed to disappear. For this reason, the study engages with the body of authors associated with "Subaltern Studies". Among the prominent figures in this historiographical trend are Indian scholars: Dipesh Chakrabarty, Partha Chatterjee, Ranajit Guha, David Hardiman, Sudipta Kaviraj, Gyanedra Pandey, and Gyan Prakash. These authors offer theoretical reflections on the agency of subalternized individuals/groups – and here I also emphasize a subalternized cultural representation, transformed in the face of the dictates of big capital – in the face of the challenge to a history viewed from a national and universalist perspective. Instituição: Universidade Federal do Maranhão Tipo do documento: Dissertação 2026-03-27T00:00:00Z https://tedebc.ufma.br/jspui/handle/tede/6918 Título: A gripe espanhola no litoral maranhense através dos jornais do Estado (1918-1919) Autor: FRANCO, Ticyana Silva Primeiro orientador: ALONSO, José Luis Ruiz-Peinado Abstract: This study aims to analyze the experience of the Spanish Flu on the coast of Maranhão, with a focus on São Luís and the then village of Cururupu, between 1918 and 1919, through narratives about the disease published in the Maranhão newspapers Pacotilha, O Jornal, Diario Official do Estado do Maranhão and O Littoral. The research seeks to understand social relations and power dynamics during the pandemic, as well as the ways in which government authorities, physicians, health authorities, and society responded to the emergence of a new disease. The methodology is based on a qualitative approach, considering subjectivity as a fundamental element in the construction of historical knowledge. A serial perspective, related to Serial History, is also employed in order to observe the phenomenon through its recurrence, using comparison to investigate events and explain them in terms of similarities and differences. Finally, the analyzed newspapers reveal, through their discourses and underlying meanings, two cities that responded differently to the health crisis. In São Luís, the sources highlight infrastructural problems, hospital precariousness, and deep social inequalities, in which poorer populations were disproportionately affected and faced intensified hardships. In Cururupu, the widespread adherence across social groups to therapeutic practices associated with pajelança stood out, within a context marked by governmental neglect and fragile sanitary structures. Instituição: Universidade Federal do Maranhão Tipo do documento: Dissertação 2026-03-04T00:00:00Z