Communities of Ceramic Practices: a comparison between Southeast São Paulo, Brazil and Northern Portugal

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The majority of the research made concerning colonial interactions in the Americas is centered on African diasporas, and little attention has been given to the relations between Europeans and Indigenous people. This paper aims to discuss the relationship between ceramic techniques in Brazil and Portugal in the colonial period, which resulted in the creation of Paulistaware by Tupiniquim women. In the 16th century, these women appropriated the style of Portuguese everyday wares, transforming the production of their ceramics, which continues until today. We will use historical, linguistic, and archaeological evidence to compare both productions: Northern Portugal and Southeast São Paulo. The results suggest that Indigenous women appropriated the forms of northern Portuguese black ceramics and their aesthetics since vegetal pigments were used to transform redware into black wares, creating an even bigger similarity between both productions.

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