El bautizo de tres tupinambás en París: mediación, aculturación y alianza franco-tupí, siglo XVII
Beginning with the baptism of three tupinambás in Paris in 1613, which aroused great interest, both in the court and in the French collective imagination, this text revisits the long tradition of trips by Tupi Indians to French lands to account for a specific type of interaction, mediation and accul...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2020 |
| Country: | México |
| Institution: | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
| Repository: | Repositorio Institucional del Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, UNAM |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ru.historicas.unam.mx:20.500.12525/3233 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12525/3233 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | CIENCIAS SOCIALES tupinambás colonización francesa Brasil siglo XVII matrimonio y alianza franco-tup |
| Summary: | Beginning with the baptism of three tupinambás in Paris in 1613, which aroused great interest, both in the court and in the French collective imagination, this text revisits the long tradition of trips by Tupi Indians to French lands to account for a specific type of interaction, mediation and acculturation on the American borders within the framework of a long-standing political, military and commercial alliance. The political agency of the “Tupinambás ambassadors” is analyzed through the results of their mediation, translation, change and adaptation practices. By incorporating the Catholic discursive and symbolic order, whilst appropriating certain practices and rejecting others, the Tupinambás transcended the logic of the imposition of a Colonial model by negotiating and endorsing their political-military alliance with the French. The possibility of building mutually comprehensible worlds was accompanied by various types of Exchange, among which women and marriage played a central role |
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