INDIGENIST QUESTION FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF DIFFERENT WRITERS AT THE TURN OF THE 19TH CENTURY AND THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY: EDUCATIONAL AND CIVILIZING PROJECTS (1893-1910).

projetos educativos e civilizacionais (1893-1910)

Abstract

This article analyzes the linguistic games present in sources of different natures, in the educational and civilizing project oriented towards Brazilian indigenous people, manifested by a group of writers from the turn of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. This work is delimited between 1890 and 1910 and considered the intellectual environment that chose the indigenist theme as the core of one of the educational projects of this period. The analysis is guided by Linguistic Contextualism - Pocock and Quentin Skinner - whose focus is on the pragmatic dimension of political discourse and the relationship between experienced reality and language. Regarding the sources, they were produced by different subjects, who showed, in the public scene, conceptions about the theme of this work. Although the writers listed here have generic positions on some issues related to Brazilian indigenous peoples, there is a consensus that education would be the power that would enable the process of insertion of these peoples in the civilizing process, with a bias that had as a project the construction of a “Brazilian identity”, in which the indigenous people occupied an important place.