“Why no god has it as correct”: indigenous peoples’s religious manifestation and collective memory in the portuguese america (XVI century) ; “Porque ningún dios tiene razón”: manifestaciones religiosas amerindias y memoria colectiva en américa portuguesa (siglo XVI) ; “Porque nenhum deus têm certo”: manifestações religiosas ameríndias e memória coletiva na américa portuguesa (século XVI)

In order to better establish a relationship between the collective memory and the religious manifestations of the indigenous peoples of Portuguese America in the sixteenth century, this research aimed to analyze, based on the reports of Jesuit letters, the conceptions of religion understood by European missionaries and the religious manifestations of indigenous groups, especially the Tupinambá peoples, strongly subsidized by the collective group memory. Since this is a historical-documentary research, some of the colonial documents of the mentioned period were analyzed, such as the Jesuit letters from the Monumenta Brasiliae (1538-1563), organized by Serafim Leite, and the collection of Jesuit letters organized by the publisher of the University of São Paulo (1988), besides colonial writings of contemporary chroniclers: Jean de Léry (2007), Hans Staden (2008), Fernão Cardim (1980), among others. Regarding studies in memory, the concepts of collective memory presented by Jacques Le Goff (2012) and Leroi-Gourhan (2002) were used. As a method of approach, the dialectical categories were used, since, when analyzing the colonial context of Portuguese America in the period in question, it is essential to consider the relationships of the parts with the totality. The studies pointed out that, although they tried to deny the presence of a religion among the indigenous people, the social organization of the group maintained a strong relationship with mystical elements and the collective memory was the thread that kept the search for the "good place" alive. ; Para establecer una mejor relación entre la memoria colectiva y las manifestaciones religiosas de los pueblos indígenas de América portuguesa en el siglo XVI, esta investigación tuvo como objetivo analizar, a partir de los informes de las cartas jesuitas, las concepciones de la religión entendidas por los misioneros europeos y las manifestaciones religiosas de los grupos indígenas, en particular, de los pueblos tupinambá, fuertemente subsidiados por la memoria ...