Territórios nativos: a Carte de la terre ferme du Perou, du Brésil et du Pays des Amazones de Guillaume de L’Isle (1703) e a distribuição espacial das populações indígenas na Amazônia

Abstract

This article aims to analyses the spatial distribution of indigenous populations during the colonial period, as well as to characterize them in terms of their use of space and habits. This study is based on the Carte de la terre ferme du Perou, du Brésil et du Pays des Amazones, produced by Guillaume de L’Isle in 1703, combined with documentary analysis of historical sources indicated by the author of the map himself. Aspects of the territorialization of indigenous peoples are identified amidst colonial expansion and political-spatial disputes between European empires. The geohistory of Brazil is thus reviewed, with an emphasis on the spatiality of indigenous peoples rather than colonial occupation, as historiography traditionally approaches this period.