Vestígios indígenas na cartografia do sertão da América portuguesa

During the first three centuries of colonization of Portuguese America, indigenous cartography helped the outlanders to decipher the space that they conventionally named sertão (backcountry). The colonizers in the Captaincy of São Paulo (expeditions, soldiers, settlers, bureaucrats, merchants, and adventurers) mapped out the hinterland with utmost care. However, because the territory was a colony, such agents reorganized that space and classified the ethnic groups into distinct, fixed and homogenous categories. As the Portuguese Crown moved ahead with its conquest, the indigenous groups were gradually wiped out from the maps and their territories expropriated.Nos três primeiros séculos da colonização da América portuguesa, a cartografia indígena auxiliou no processo de decodificação do espaço convencionalmente chamado "sertão" pelos adventícios. Agentes de colonização da capitania de São Paulo (bandeirantes, soldados, povoadores, burocratas, comerciantes e aventureiros) mapearam cuidadosamente os territórios interiores. A situação colonial, entretanto, impôs uma nova orientação do espaço, bem como classificou os grupos étnicos em categorias distintas, fixas e homogêneas. Nesse processo de conquista da Coroa portuguesa, os grupos indígenas foram gradativamente eclipsados dos mapas, e seus territórios, expropriados

This I Believe – "I Teach Because You Vote" [November 2, 2010]

Gregory H. Nobles, HTS professor and director of the Georgia Tech Honors Program presented a talk on November 2, 2010 from 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM in the Neely Lobby of the Georgia Tech Library.Runtime: 06:53 minutesThis week’s Tech’s Open Forum is inspired by "This I Believe," an international project engaging people in writing and sharing essays describing the core values that guide their daily lives. This exercise is based on a 1950s radio program of the same name, hosted by journalist Edward R. Murrow. Each day, Americans gathered by their radios to hear compelling essays from the likes of Eleanor Roosevelt, Jackie Robinson, Helen Keller, and Harry Truman, as well as corporate leaders, cab drivers, scientists, and secretaries – anyone able to distill into a few minutes the guiding principles by which they lived. More information about "This I Believe" can be found at http://thisibelieve.org

This I Believe (Part 1)

Presented on July 20, 2010 from 11 am to 12 noon in the Library East CommonsRuntime: 09:46 minutesThis week’s Tech’s Open Forum is inspired by "This I Believe," an international project engaging people in writing and sharing essays describing the core values that guide their daily lives. This exercise is based on a 1950s radio program of the same name, hosted by journalist Edward R. Murrow. Each day, Americans gathered by their radios to hear compelling essays from the likes of Eleanor Roosevelt, Jackie Robinson, Helen Keller, and Harry Truman, as well as corporate leaders, cab drivers, scientists, and secretaries – anyone able to distill into a few minutes the guiding principles by which they lived. More information about "This I Believe" can be found at http://thisibelieve.org