FOOD INTERDICTIONS IN LIMINALITY’S SITUATIONS AMONG THE KIRIRI INDIANS FROM BAHIA'S BACKWATERS

• Main Author: Sandra Simone Morais Pacheco
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul 2011-06-01
• Series: Espaço Ameríndio
• Subjects: Índios; Interdições; Alimento; Corpo.
• Online Access: http://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/EspacoAmerindio/article/view/18718

The Kiriri indigenous people have a population of around 2,000 who live in the north of the State of Bahia, Brazil. The presented results are based on research work undertaken between 2003 and 2007. The food interdictions are rules which state the food as possible cause for illnesses, either physical, psychological or spiritual. Usually, these interdictions are applied more often when involving people in social or physical borderline states. Interdictions related to the food temperature, as well as the combination of food considered “hot” or “cold”, were observed. The food interdictions operate in a field where there can be noted the search for equilibrium and the prevalence of the conception of interdependence between food, body, the historic moment being lived by the body, and the ambient conditions.