Privilegios y malogros de la familia Camarão

Bibliographic Data

ID4896079
AuthorsRonald Raminelli (0000-0002-9779-5457, Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, corresponding author)
Year2008
Publication date2008-03-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNuevo mundo mundos nuevos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1626-0252 • E-ISSN: 1626-0252
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/nuevomundo.27802
OpenAlexW2058342587
LanguageES
Citations received4
References cited1

For one century, the Camarão family (Potiguar Indians) attempted to approach the monarchy and the Church. To achieve this objective, they abandoned their nomadic lifestyle, polygamy, cannibalism and slowly began to behave more as Christians and noblemen in search of honor and royal privileges, mainly through military services to the Portuguese Crown. These changes can not be interpreted only as a mere acculturation process, but as a mean to strengthening their power and leadership. Their alliance with the Portuguese was essential to the maintenance of their control over other indigenous groups, to perpetuate the patent of governorship and to guarantee the transmission of immaterial assets, as that alliance not only provided the Camarão family weapons and fortifications, but also gave them honors and privileges. Furthermore, Christian marriages assured the transmission of inheritance from Indians leaders to their sons, which might also include the honors and privileges of the fathers

Alliance · Ethnology · Genealogy · Honor · Indigenous · Monarchy · Political science · Politics · Portuguese · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Studies in Latin America · History · History of Colonial Brazil · Latin American history and culture · Law · Philosophy · Ecology

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