Roessler vs. bird hunters: "passarinhada" and ethnic conflicts in the south of Brazil

• Autores: Elenita Malta Pereira, Regina Weber
• Localización: Miradas en Movimiento, ISSN-e 1852-2173, Vol. Extra 1, 2012 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Naturally Inmigranrs), págs. 98-124
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Southern Brazil is a region characterized by an inter-ethnic framework, which originates from, among other factors, the European immigrants who colonized the area from the nineteenth century on. Henrique Luiz Roessler, a tax agent for hunting and fishing as well as a descendant of German immigrants, started repressing the passarinhada, a name used either for the hunting of wild birds or a gastronomic ritual. Roessler was sued by the hunters and became the target of a defamatory campaign by Italian immigrants and their descendants, who were the main practitioners of bird hunting. The conflict between the agent and the fowlers led to the formulation of negative images of both sides, setting up an inter-ethnic "war of representations".