As per Konkani writers, like Damodar Mauzo, the word Poskem comes from the Sanskrit word 'Posh' which means to raise or bring up. It can be used not just for children but also for animals and flora/fauna. W
Sent from my iPad Pro www.wendellrodricks.com Address: Wendell Rodricks, Campal, Panjim, Goa. 403001. INDIA Off: +91-832-2420604 Shop:+91-832-2238177 E-retail: wendellrodricks.com > On 14-Nov-2017, at 5:28 PM, 'joao roque literary journal' via The Goa Book > Club <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The word ‘crioulo’, Melo informs, has a conflicted history, and ‘disparate > usage across geographies.’ Most likely derived from the Latin root ‘creare’ > to ‘create’ and the related Portuguese verb ‘criar’ to ‘raise or bring up’, > in its initial usage 'crioulo' referred to black slaves born in the Americas, > a word used to differentiate them from slaves brought over from Africa. > > But what did the word mean in Goa? Luis Cabral de Olivier, left this entry > for the word ‘crioulo’ in a dictionary of ‘imperial’ Portuguese terms: ‘The > term crioulo was used in Goa in a sense different to the one it is usually > associated. The word served to designate either an adopted child or a servant > close to the family raised at home from childhood.’ It interesting how over > time 'crioulos' a word linked to slavery and African heritage, and mired in > race miscegenation transformed to mean 'adopted' in the Goan context. > > Many a ‘crioulo’ in Goa, did indeed have African heritage. Goans who had > migrated to Africa, at times, returned with indigenous African servants who > might have been in their employ there. Fatima Gracias hypothesises that freed > slaves, after the abolition of slavery within the Portuguese empire, might > have been adopted. Given that the Santa Casa had in their custody abandoned > slaves as well as orphans, it is hardly a stretch to assume that the Santa > Casa would have encouraged people to adopt slaves, no doubt as labour rather > than as children to cherish. And finally, there were African troops stationed > in Goa; anecdotal evidence tells us there were illegitimate children of > biracial Goan-African stock who were adopted by families. > > Read full text here: > https://selma-carvalho.squarespace.com/nonfiction-1/2017/10/7/of-crioulos-and-poskim > > Best, > Editorial team > -- > *** Please be polite and on-topic in your posts. *** > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Goa Book Club" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/goa-book-club. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-book-club/1584735579.3256401.1510660731795%40mail.yahoo.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
