Quatro notas preliminares para uma “ontologia arcaica” de Manduca o terrível

This essay delas with ethnographic and historical notes on Manduca a figure feared for his perversities, tyranny and oppression of the indigenous people from Rio Negro, Amazon State/Brazil. Sent to the region as a representative of the Brazilian Government, he symbolized the violence of the history of contact between the those people and the national society. Having Manduca as a central figure the article also analyzes the distinct “temporalities” expressed by the the ‘Mitical” and “Historical” categories as revealing of the colonial processes occurred in the region.