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Encyclopedia > Caboclo

A Caboclo is a person of mixed Brazilian Indian and European ancestry. This article is about the continent. ...


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caboclo (4665 words)
In questo momento il caboclo è il "meticcio dalla pelle ramata" che abita nella boscaglia e, reclutato nell'estrazione dei prodotti vegetali, integra questa attività coltivando le terre fertili della varzea (pianura alluvionale).
Ma anche il caboclo, attraverso l'intensa fusione sul piano fisico e culturale accolse alcuni elementi esterni che contribuirono a conferire alla sua cultura quel carattere profondamente sincretico di cui essa è tutt'oggi portatrice.
Il caboclo continua a praticare la tradizionale agricoltura di sussistenza dedicandosi alla coltivazione di manioca, mais, fagioli, riso e patata dolce ed integrando la propria dieta con i prodotti della pesca, della caccia e con la raccolta dei frutti della foresta (papaya, ananas, goiaba, ecc.).
Brazil case study 2 (1049 words)
She continued, 'Look here, the laziness of the caboclo of the region is a result of nature helping them too much and being too kind to them, fish and birds are free.
In sum, the use of the term caboclo is a linguistic tool supporting the marginalisation and history of conquest and oppression of indigenous and mixed blood peoples of the Amazon.
The usage of caboclo is still widely accepted in academic circles, but does not have the negative connatations, instead it has become a generic term to refer to the `historical Amazonian peasantries' (see Nugent 1993).
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