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FROM THE ÍNDIO GENTIO TO THE GENTIO BÁRBARO: USES AND MISUSES OF JUST WAR IN SEVENTEENTH CENTURY BAHIA

This article examines the justification process of the expansion towards the hinterlands of Salvador da Bahia in the Seventeenth century. It focuses the interactions between the local and imperial dynamics, which lead to a situation of institutionalized violence against the Indian native populations.

Bahia; Portuguese Empire; sertão; Indians; representations


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