Abstract

PEREZ GERARDO, Diana Roselly. The baptism of three tupinambás in Paris. Mediation, acculturation and Franco-Tupi alliance, 17th Century. Cuicuilco. Rev. cienc. antropol. [online]. 2020, vol.27, n.79, pp.179-203.  Epub May 21, 2021. ISSN 2448-8488.

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.

Keywords : Tupinambás; French colonization; 17th Century Brazil; Franco-Tupi marriage and Alliance.

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