MATERIALIZING WHITE CITIES: THE CAPTAINITY OF ITAMARACÁ AND ITS REPRESENTATION OF A CULTURAL LANDSCAPE IN COLONY BRAZIL.
Captaincy of Itamaracá, Colonial Cities, Material Culture, Cultural Landscape.
The present thesis work aims to discuss the elaboration of colonial cities as a space of representation for a model of urban and architectural organization, which we call White Cities, which reproduces not a Portuguese metropolitan logic, but an ordering of its own cultural landscape. articulated with the conditions and structures of power arising from its historical and cultural manifestations. The thesis presents a reconstruction of this past of whitewashed facades, based on the History and narratives created about the multifaceted Captaincy of Itamaracá and its relationship with the other Captaincies of Northern Brazil. To this end, we seek an intricate game of methodological approaches that need to access and dialogue the strategies of scientific interpretation arising from geography, unveiling the paths for the formation of Cal, as a constructive raw material, of archeology to bring as an element of founding social identity material culture and its range of meanings, architecture, setting the stage for understanding the landscape of cities, their representations and how they connect the history of the subjects and arguments of social and cultural elaboration that built them to the entire context. Combining material sources from geography, architecture and archeology, we carry out extensive work analyzing the documents produced about the history of the Captaincy of Itamaracá, Cal and the political and economic situation of the Captaincies of northern Brazil, using reports from chroniclers and travelers, current images and their iconographic counterpoint, maps, customs records, official letters to the Portuguese metropolis, as well as a bibliography of classic authors such as Roncayolo, Buarque de Holanda, Chartier, Pedro Almeida to dialogue with Dantas, Keller, Macedo and Thiesen, among others so many that contribute to the narrative proposed for this scientific investigation being able to broaden perspectives on the history of the Captaincy of Itamaracá and Brazilian colonial cities.