Rural toponymy of Alagoinhas

human accidents of indigenous and African origin

Abstract

This present article is about the analysis of a sample of data on human accidents of indigenous and African origin, from the rural area of ​​the municipality of Alagoinhas-Bahia, territory of identity 18, collected for the ongoing master's research, entitled: “The Rural Toponymy in the Cultural and Historical construction of Alagoinhas: human accidents”. The research consists of a corpus arranged in cartographic bases of the municipality, collected from IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), TRE (Regional Electoral Court), UARA (Union of Rural Community Associations of Alagoinhas), FIGAM (Iraci Gama Foundation) and documents from the municipality's public archives. The historical, economic, cultural and social factors responsible for naming the villages and districts of the municipality's rural toponymy will be addressed, a region that served as a gateway for the Bandeiras movement at the end of the 18th century. We understand that cultural traits of identity and memory of a people can be identified through the toponymic term, considering that, when studying human accidents in the countryside through their designations, we can walk paths through the history of their land. In this way, identifying the reasons which made it possible to choose the toponyms of those locations, as well as greater or lesser representativeness and toponymic prestige, allows us to take a special look at the formation and cultural construction of these people in that space. It is important to note that of the 70 (seventy) toponyms investigated, in this text, only those of indigenous and African origin from the rural zone of this municipality will e by analyzed, adopting the toponymic model initially proposed by Dick (1990) as a theoretical reference.