Missioneirismo: a produção de uma identidade regional

Abstract

In the decade of 1980, part of the counties in região das Missões negotiated in a special way its identity arrange. During that period, some communities remembered and celebrated the 300 years of the arrival of the Jesuit priests and the foundation of the first missions of second Inacian phase to the East of Uruguai River. This past build to be a basis for the new classifications and representations was the product of nowadays necessities. It is in the context of Braziliand 80s crisis that we found the explanation for the negotiations that the groups that had power established with the colonial past of that region. A time lived by guarani people, whose references ended up being appropriated by the descendents of other ethnic people that arrived in the end of 19th century and beginning of 20th century and whose relation to the guaranis is only the place occupied and the past presentification. In this sense, São Luiz Gonzaga was a pioneer, starting a special way of classification, based on referentials from the