UMBUZEIRO DOS DEFUNTOS: A MILESTONE IN HISTORY OF SÃO LOURENÇO DO PIAUÍ

• Autor(a) principal: Kestering, Celito
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Sousa, Gizelle Santos de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos do LEPAARQ
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufpel.edu.br/index.php/lepaarq/article/view/3388
• topic: Umbuzeiro dos defuntos; Oral tradition; Material culture; São Lourenço do Piauí.; Arqueologia Funerária; Arqueologia; Umbuzeiro dos defuntos; Tradição oral; Cultura material; São Lourenço do Piauí

This article refers to research that is done by the umbuzeiro dos defuntos, landmark of the municipality of São Lourenço do Piauí. It is known by the oral history that, next to a leafy umbuzeiro were buried many Indians who refused to be slaves on the farms of southeastern Piauí State. On formulates the hypothesis that there were buried nearly five hundred Indians killed by the Portuguese in the latter half of the seventeenth century, as reported by Priest Martin de Nantes. Interviews were conducted with elderly people in the city of São Lourenço to rescue fragments of oral tradition about umbuzeiro dos defuntos and the origin of the present city of São Lourenço. Information did not match the catastrophe narrated by Franciscan missionary however indicate that there lie the bodies of many dead Indians in a state of utter despair. It is said that the high stress experienced at the time of his murder is preserved and manifested in hauntings that translate regionally as aleivosias. It is hoped that with the opening of polls and excavations, meet organic remains and material culture to corroborate the hypothesis that on formulates in the current stage of research.