The Parintintin in the Amazonian press

between practices and representations about the war

Abstract

The present article is constituted based on the concerns of the New Indigenous History, aiming to identify and analyze the practices and representations of the Parintintin indigenous war in the Amazonian press between the years 1880 to 1920. For this, it is used the notions of practice, representation, the understanding of indigenous warfare as a social fact, the press as an active social force and the methodology of Discourse Analysis, to highlight the discourse represented in newspapers, in the context of expansion of the extractive frontier in Amazonas. The research has as its primary source the newspapers of the Hemeroteca Digital, which together with a bibliography and official documents of the time, were analyzed according to the problem presented here. This article walks in the gap of the few works in the field of History that deal with indigenous peoples in newspapers, maintaining the concern to highlight indigenous agency and protagonism, recognizing them as historical and social agents. In conclusion, it was possible to evidence and understand the discourse that based the news about the Parintintin war, to whom it was intended, its purpose and those interested in its dissemination.