caa a22 4500 386312869 CHVBK 20180307111554.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198804 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0010417500015164 doi S0010417500015164 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0010417500015164 Ewald Janet Duke University Speaking, Writing, and Authority: Explorations in and from the Kingdom of Taqali [Elektronische Daten] [Janet Ewald] Segismundo's services [as notary at the registry office] had, indeed, been admirably suited to the time and place. ... He cheerfully registered all the children that ap-peared before him as having been born in the County of Ilheus, State of Bahia, Brazil. ... How could one be bothered with such miserable legal details as the exact place and date of a child's birth when one was living dangerously in the midst of gun fights, armed bandits, and deadly ambushes? What did it matter, really, where the little Brazilian about to be registered was born? ... He simply took the word of these friendly immigrants and their witnesses—respectable men whose word was worth more than any legal document—and accepted their gifts. ... By that venerable hand, on a certain afternoon many years ago, little Nacib [a Syrian immigrant] was turned into a native-born Brazilian. Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1988 Comparative Studies in Society and History Cambridge University Press 30/2(1988-04), 200-224 0010-4175 30:2<200 1988 30 CSS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417500015164 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417500015164 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ewald Janet Duke University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Comparative Studies in Society and History Cambridge University Press 30/2(1988-04), 200-224 0010-4175 30:2<200 1988 30 CSS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 224337890 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge