As galinhas incontáveis. Tupis, europeus e aves domésticas na conquista no Brasil
Unlimited chickens: Tupians, Europeans and domestic fowl in the conquest of Brazil. This article explores the interaction between the Tupi-speaking indigenous peoples in coastal Portuguese America and the domestic chicken introduced in the first years of the conquest. Several notes produced by colon...
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| Language: | English |
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Société des américanistes
2012-12-01
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| Series: | Journal de la Société des Américanistes |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/jsa/12350 |
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| Summary: | Unlimited chickens: Tupians, Europeans and domestic fowl in the conquest of Brazil. This article explores the interaction between the Tupi-speaking indigenous peoples in coastal Portuguese America and the domestic chicken introduced in the first years of the conquest. Several notes produced by colonial observers during the 16th and 17th centuries mentioned chicken living in Tupi villages. These reports, allied to the historical, ethnographic and ethnological knowledge accumulated on the colonial Tupians and other contemporary Tupi-speaking groups, would help us elucidate some questions about the cosmological meanings of domestic chickens among Tupians, as well as discuss a complex network which connected native and colonial villages in the first 200 years of the conquest. I suggest that chicken were an intermediary animal category situated between domesticated animals (pets) and tamed animals (wild pets). I also argue that this characteristic of domestic fowl introduced by Europeans was a trigger for an exchange network that provisioned the first colonial villages and travelers in Portuguese America with food supplies. |
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| ISSN: | 0037-9174 1957-7842 |