Output details
24 - Anthropology and Development Studies
University of St Andrews
Article title
O lobisomem entre índios e brancos : o trabalho da imaginação no Grão-Pará no final do século XVIII
Type
D - Journal article
DOI
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Title of journal
Revista do Instituto dos Estudos Brasileiros
Article number
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Volume number
47
Issue number
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First page of article
29
ISSN of journal
0020-3874
Year of publication
2008
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
Little research has been conducted on the religion in the Amazon during the colonial period despite the existence of various relevant primary sources. Developing arguments made elsewhere in Brazil, and using documents from the State archive of Pará, this article focuses on the Portuguese derived figure of the werewolf, which I argue acted as a bridging concept to similar transformative beings in the Amerindian world. These merging horizons were made by diverse kinds of people and represented an imaginative frontier and was the localised form in which whites, mestiços and Indians came to relate each other.
