Caboclo
As Caboclos are hybrids of Indians called and Europeans. The word goes back to a term used by the Tupi , the kaa'boc , "coming from white people".
Caboclos live mainly in the smaller places on the lower reaches of the Amazon (east of Manaus , e.g. Parintins ).
In a figurative sense, the term is also used as a dirty word for untrustworthy or fraudulent people.
In the syncretic religion Umbanda , which is also at home in Brazil , (female) Caboclas and (male) Caboclos are specific spiritual beings.
literature
- Hannes Leuschner, The Spirits of the New World: Religious and Social Integration of Brazilian Spirit Beings in the Candomblé of Santo Amaro, Bahia, Brazil , p. 46
- Eduardo S. Brondízio, The Amazonian Caboclo and the Açaí Palm , p. 21
- Christian August Fischer, Latest Painting from Brazil , 1819, p.77