Notes on construction of an “Azorean identity” in the Southern Brazil colonization in XVIIIth

• Autor(a) principal: Hameister, Martha Daisson
• Data de Publicação: 2005
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Anos 90 (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/6369
• topic: Migração açoriana; Estratégias sociais; Estratégias familiares; Rio Grande do Sul colonial; Azorean migration; Social strategies; Family strategies; Colonial Rio Grande do Sul

This paper aimes to contributing to the debate on the making of an “Azorean identity” during the process of conquest and colonization of Brazil’s southern lands. Seen as a cohesive and homogeneous group, the “Azoreans” – as they are called in southern historiography – would also have, according to that historiography, a homogeneous behavior resulting from their common origin in the Islands. However, the purpose here is to demonstrate that the group’s identification and identity are above all a result of particularly southern traits as well as options and strategies employed by those migrants in the far south of the State of Brazil, with no correlate in the State of Grão-Pará and Maranhão, where a similar number of islanders were transferred to during the same period. Therefore, it is argued that such identity has been historically built along conquest and peopling of the south. Evidence of such phenomenon and some of its possible causes are pointed out.