Criações da cozinha: corpos, pessoas e relações em contextos indígenas, camponeses e quilombolas

Abstract

Starting from the authors’ ethnographies, one carried out with farmers/family members of the Buracos people and the other with the Karo-Arara, an indigenous people who speak the Tupi Ramarama language, this article investigates the relationships elicited through female agency in the kitchen and production, circulation and sharing of food and drink. It is about crossing borders between two well-established traditions in Brazilian anthropology as peasant studies and indigenous ethnology. We seek to show how, in different indigenous, quilombola and peasant ethnographic contexts, the kitchen is a creative device through which bodies, people and communities necessarily involved in specific lands and territories are constituted, and also undone.