Tupinamba
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- proper noun
- In one telling scene, a French merchant ship comes to trade with Tupinamba allies.
- Tupinamba of Brazil
Examples
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Subtly, dos Santos demonstrates the difference in the two characters' perceptions when the Tupinamba woman calls her dead husband by the indigenous word for spouse while adopting the French word mari for her European partner.
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While never giving up hope of a return to French soil, the European begins to view himself as integrated into the Tupinamba society, to the extent of having his indigenous wife refer to him as her husband.
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These accounts include his nine months as a captive among Brazil's anthropophagic Tupinamba tribe during his second voyage.
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Here, alongside the Caribs or the Tupinamba of Brazil, the mountain folk of southern Italy shared with barbarians both sexual licentiousness and an absence of 'right reason.'
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The Tupinamba were known for their intricate rituals and social structures within Brazilian society.
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Many scholars study the Tupinamba language to better understand its unique linguistic features.
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Historically, the Tupinamba tribe played a significant role in the interactions between European colonizers and indigenous peoples.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tupinamba comes from the native Tupi language of Brazil, where it was the name the group used for themselves. So Tupinamba today means a member of that 'people' or the 'language' they speak.