Marcadores ideológicos na toponímia do Sudeste do Pará: estudos de hagiotoponímia

Abstract

The southeastern mesoregion of Pará, after about four centuries since the arrival of the first Christian missionaries, has strong features of the Christian religion in its toponymy. This work aims to point to religious motivation as one of the factors that influenced the territorial formation of the southeastern mesoregion of Pará, as well as the choice of the nomination of its municipalities. Therefore, the research corpus consists of eight hagiotoponyms, namely: Bom Jesus do Tocantins, Conceição do Araguaia, Santa Maria das Barreiras, Santana do Araguaia, São Domingos do Araguaia, São Félix do Xingu, São Geraldo do Araguaia and São João do Araguaia. In short, the research seeks to discuss how religious motivation was reflected in the choice of place names. As a research methodology, bibliographic and documentary research parameters were used. For the toponymic studies and classification of the taxonomic categories used, the writings of Dick (1990) were adopted.