THE DISCRETE BEAUTY: AESTHETIC FOOD MBYÁ-GUARANI

• Main Author: Mártin César Tempass
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2007-12-01
• Series: Espaço Ameríndio
• Subjects: Estética; Mbyá-Guarani; alimentação; grupos indígenas
• Online Access: http://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EspacoAmerindio/article/view/2567

Beyond the palate, excessively felt also the preparation and consumption of foods are set in motion in. The vision is basic in this process, assisting the palate in the determination of that he is " appetizing". Thus, also we eat with the eyes, therefore beyond a good taste the food also it needs to offer a pleasant appearance. It occurs that each culture possesss specific tastes how much to the food. In the same way, each culture presents singularity in the visual presentation of its plates. This aesthetic specific, related to other domínios of the thought, reflects the social and cosmological order of the group that puts it in practical. Thus being, it is intended, through the ethnografic method, to more investigate the appreciated forms of visual presentation of foods between the Mbyá-Guarani, present aboriginal group in the south of Brazil, as well as the directions that this ethnic partiality attributes to the aesthetic one of its foods.