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      Maria Índia, ou a fronteira da colonização: trabalho, migração e política no planalto sul de Angola

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          Este artigo examina um peculiar e pouco conhecido episódio de colonização ocorrido no Sul de Angola na década de 1880, em que migrantes empobrecidos da Ilha da Madeira foram mobilizados pelo governo português para garantir a ocupação do território de fronteira no contexto da competição europeia pela África. A análise das fontes primárias revela improvisos, precariedades e ambiguidades que a história colonial produzida no século XX veio a apagar e substituir por uma narrativa de heroísmo e pioneirismo.

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          This article analyses a peculiar and obscure episode in the colonial history of southern Angola. In the 1880s, the Portuguese government sponsored the settlement in the Huíla plateau of a group of impoverished migrants from the island of Madeira. This was part of a strategy of guaranteeing territorial control, frontier expansion and definition of borders in the context of the "European scramble for Africa". The study of primary sources reveals a great deal of improvisation, fragilities and ambiguities that the colonial history written in the 20th century rapidly erased and replaced for a narrative of pioneering heroism and white entitlement.

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                Journal
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                Horizontes Antropológicos
                Horiz.antropol.
                Programa de Pós-graduação em Antropologia Social - IFCH-UFRGS (Porto Alegre )
                0104-7183
                June 2009
                : 15
                : 31
                : 51-74
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Instituto de Ciências Sociais Portugal
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                S0104-71832009000100003
                10.1590/S0104-71832009000100003
                be505631-0456-475c-a110-761e4b679f06

                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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                Angola,borders,colonization,frontier,colonização,fronteira,migração

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