Agência e sujeição: notas sobre a relação entre autoridades coloniais e guerreiros Bororo, na guerra-justa contra os Kayapó

Abstract

In this article, we develop some considerations based on historical research on the relationship between warriors of Boe indigenous nation (also called Bororo) and colonial authorities during the Guerra Justa (Jus ad Bellum or Bellum Iustum) against Kayapó people, which took place in the mid-18th century in the captaincy of Goiás. This association, a kind of hierarchical “friendship”, was the result of the violent conquest commanded by the explorer Antônio Pires de Campos decades before, at the Vila Real do Senhor Bom Jesus de Cuiabá. The aim of the article is to interpret historical facts under the decoloniality concept, an idea formulated by the Modernity/Coloniality group, formed by Latin intellectuals who carried out an essential political/epistemological movement for the critical and utopian update of social sciences in Latin America in the 21st century.