‘INDIGENOUS BARBARIANS’ AND THE CATECHESIS PROCESS IN KIRIRI LANGUAGE

THE ART OF READING, WRITING AND COUNTING ON THE INSIDE WAYS

Abstract

In this article, we will present the contact between ignatians and indigenous people in the missions of the “paths from within”, about facts left by time. We will talk about the nations of indigenous peoples, peoples who made the history of the semi-arid region of Bahia, in the 17th century, and were generically known as “Tapuias” because they positioned themselves as enemies of the colonizers and indigenous peoples of the coastal coast. The period of coexistence in these villages resulted in the written production of the Kiriri Catechism (1698), by Father Luiz Vincencio Mamiani; and the Catechism of Language Kariri (1699), by the Capuchin Bernardo de Nantes, which aimed to indoctrinate and literate for “civilization” and the Catholic faith. Ethnocentrism Ethnocentrism, the art of indoctrination in Kiriri revolutionized the language of the sertão, above all, through the catechesis of an emblematic language of the domain that faced the language despite communication, in this historical context. Thus, the record of the language and customs of the Kiriri nation remains as the greatest legacy of the humanistic formation of the Society of Jesus, in its passage in the north of Bahia.