The unpublished 1719 Report of Jacinto de Carvalho on Amazonian ethnography
After working for thirteen years at the Amazonian Jesuitic missions, the Portuguese Jacinto de Carvalho (1677-1744) sent to the Superior of his order a report on the country and on some of its native tribes' customs. This report, the main ethnographic source of early 18th Century Amazonia, is k...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
2012-12-01
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| Series: | Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1981-81222012000300009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=pt |
| Summary: | After working for thirteen years at the Amazonian Jesuitic missions, the Portuguese Jacinto de Carvalho (1677-1744) sent to the Superior of his order a report on the country and on some of its native tribes' customs. This report, the main ethnographic source of early 18th Century Amazonia, is known only through a coeval Italian translation still unpublished. In this paper, the parts on ethnographic matters have been commented and translated to Portuguese. |
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| ISSN: | 1981-8122 |