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The purpose of this paper is to present, as an object of possible research lines, the text of the representation dated August 4, 1777, coming from the chamber of Vila Real de Sabará, Minas Gerais, in which the officers address directly to Queen Maria I, arguing that it was no longer possible to maintain the voluntary subsidy - a tribute instituted to help in the reconstruction of Lisbon, after the earthquake of 1755 - given the decay in which the village and captaincy had been. In order to mark the existence and provenance of the diplomatic document, edited under semi-diplomatic norms, studies on its codicological, paleographic and diplomatic properties precede the analysis of the text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study describes the toponymic profile of the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe (STP), a former Portuguese colony. Here, we consider (i) its linguistic contact situation, reflected in the toponyms of non-Portuguese etyma (mainly from national languages), and (ii) the structure of the toponymic syntagma in Portuguese. Toponyms are created according to a place's geographic, social, historical, and linguistic reality. Therefore, STP's toponyms are the locus of the Santomean linguistic ecology and memory. Due to its linguistic diversity, the study of Santomean toponymy is transdisciplinary. It contributes to understanding different languages that share São Tomé and Príncipe's ethnicity and linguistic heritage, including multilingual synchronic and/or diachronic conjunctures and the political importance of Portuguese. STP's toponymy expresses a multilingual conjuncture common to the country since the arrival of the Portuguese and (mainly) enslaved Africans from different regions of Africa. Although the Portuguese language and culture have influenced most local toponymy, the Santomean toponymic profile contains endemic linguistic and cultural specificities. Thus, natural phenomena, along with political and historical events, among others, play a role in forming toponyms and characterizing the local toponymy as unique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reflects on the involvement of the Indians in Ceará in the Pernambuco Revolution of 1817. They were summoned by the governor of the captaincy to defend the Portuguese monarch and were treated as "valiant vassals" by those who recruited them and behaved as faithful to the Crown. In situations of war conflict such as this, it is possible to reflect on the indigenous meanings of the status of Lusitanian vassals and the relations they established with non-Indians and governments, their statutes being at stake and, consequently, their working conditions and the preservation of Their lands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a literary criticism of the book "Mundos ibéricos: territórios, gênero e religiosidade," by Armênia Maria de Souza and Renata Cristina de Sousa Nascimento. It is commented that the book has revealed different aspects of the Brazilian colonial past in the last 500 years. It is stated that the book develops interest about Iberian Peninsula characteristics, Portugese colonies and its branching through Asia, Africa and America.

In the Amazon region the Portuguese colonizers ate the meat and the fat of sea-cows (Trichechus inunguis and Trichechus manatus) and turtles (Podocmenis expansa). After processing, fat was used to prepare food, street and house light, and to keel boats when mixed with pitch. The large scale consumption of these objects has been extensively documented in the 18th century. Reports by travelers, residents in the regions and Portuguese state servants indicate that constant hunting for these animals may have caused a deep impact on the native populations. Current analysis recovers the story. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current article present the Round Table called "The history of labor relationships in the Portuguese-speaking world (19th - 21st centuries)" comprising 6 articles which quantify, analyze and investigate labor relationships in Portugal and in Portuguese-speaking countries. The Round Table underscores how work and labor relationships were modified and adapted themselves to social, economical and political evolution in Portugal and in the Portuguese-speaking world during the last two centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current paper analyzes labor relationships in Angola around 1800, foregrounded on a set of statistical population maps produced in the first decades of the 19th century. In spite of the limitations in demographic statistics worked out within the context of 19th century colonial regime, data give a first glimpse on economical activities and labor relationships in Angola. Current article provides statistics for the demographic area and labor relationships from information given by local authorities and not merely on retrospective projections. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The educational and catechetical activities of the Jesuits in Brazil in the 16th century were characterized among other aspects by a mercantile mentality proper to the period which pushed forward the expansion of the Portuguese Empire in Asia, Africa and America. The mentality may be measured by the counting of the administration of the sacraments to the indigenous people found, extensively and in details, in the Jesuit Letters of the period. The 16th century Jesuits were imbued with a scholastic type of formation, as may be perceived in the educational document Ratio Studiorum, and with practices derived from a mercantile rationality common in the period. The understanding of these basic apparently contradictory themes on the activities of the Jesuits in colonial Brazil is possible if an a posteriori judgment and a conceptual labeling on the Society of Jesus' activities within the context of the 16th century are avoided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the conceptions of Sérgio Buarque de Holanda about the colonization of Brazil. The historian understands the formation of the colonial society as a physical and psychological construction, possible thanks to the 'social type' assumed by the conquering Portuguese in the period of the great discoveries. Sérgio Buarque, contrasting Portugal and Holland, affirms that the latter country had the same motivations as Portugal when colonizing Brazil, without, however, succeeding. He understands that, more than an answer to the new economic demands, the formation of Brazil and of the Brazilians was possible as a result of the mentality that made up the character of the Portuguese. To try and understand the Portuguese settler, understanding that he had the lead role in our first social formation, will be our objective in this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]