Entre o olhar e o paladar: cartografia do alimento da Capitania de Pernambuco

Abstract

As a priority object of analysis, this research seeks to understand the food related questions through a study that is called cartographic in the sense of a scan mapping of the most varied aspects related to food, in textual and imagery documents of the 16th and 17th century, specially those that were produced during the Dutch occupation in the Northeast region of Brazil, in the Captaincy of Pernambuco. The present can feed on memory in the search for clues and data related to dealing with food. Nowadays, the growing importance given to studies addressing the theme of food is notorious, however, work is still scarce when we turn to the issues surrounding the history of the relationship between food and inhabited places. The thesis, therefore, conducts a study of the relationships that are established in the macro and micro spaces of human communities in the long term and helps us to understand the present and to think about the future, including in relation to food autonomy or sovereignty, so dear to contemporary societies.