Caboclo
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A caboclo (Portuguese pronunciation: [kaˈboklu]; from Tupi kaa'boc, "deriving from the white") or caboco is a person of a mixed Brazilian Indian and European or African ancestry. In Brazil, a caboclo is a specific type of mestiço.
The term caboclo (which in Candomblé is usually pronounced without the l, as caboco) is said to come from the Tupi word kari'boka, meaning 'deriving from the white'. Thus its primary meaning is mestizo, 'a person of an Indian and European descent.' But it may also be used to refer to any Brazilian Indian."[1] The term Indian should not be confused with people originating from South Asia.
There was a wave of caboclos created during the time of rubber soldiers, when young, primarily white Brazilian men were taken from North-Eastern Brazil and brought into the Amazonian interior to harvest rubber. The men were never granted permission to leave, and thus married locally.
Interestingly, the traditional caboclo populations in the Amazon region of Brazil are noted as voracious eaters of the açaí palm fruit. In a study, açaí palm was described as the most important plant species because the fruit makes up such a major component of diet (up to 42% of the total food intake by weight) and is economically valuable in the region (Murrieta et al., 1999).
The "Day of the Caboclo" (Dia do Caboclo), on June 24, is an official date of the State of Amazonas.
The term caboco is also used as an alternate term for the Orishas of the Candomblé religion. The caboclo is also an Orisha.
For multiculturalistic anthropology, the term "caboclo" has been criticized as too vague and prejudgmental for scientific use.
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- ^ Wafer, James William. The taste of blood: spirit possession in Brazilian Candomblé. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991, p.55.
[edit] References
- Adams, C., Murrieta, R., & Neves, W. A. (2006). Sociedades caboclas amazônicas: modernidade e invisibilidade (1a ed.). Sâo Paulo: Annablume. ISBN 8574196444 and ISBN 9788574196442
- Murrieta, R. S. S., Dufour, D. L., & Siqueira, A. D. (1999). Food consumption and subsistence in three Caboclo populations on Marajo Island, Amazonia, Brazil. Human Ecology, 27(3), 455-475.
- Nugent, S. (1993). Amazonian caboclo society: an essay on invisibility and peasant economy. Providence, RI: Berg. ISBN 0854967567
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