Memórias do sândalo: Malaca, o atrator Timor e o canal de Solor

Abstract

In this work we present a somewhat extensive review, mainly of historical nature, focusing on the period that Malacca was under Portuguese suzerainty (1511-1641), concerning the subject of sandalwood routes from Timor, making warehouse in the archipelago of Solor. In the sixteenth century and seventeenth-century Lusitanian writings, there are no doubts about the indexical equivalence between Timor island and white sandalwood (Santalum album L.), then notable for its abundance and quality, thus inducing an attractor. The polarity of Malacca is the tensor from which radiate the routes of the spice trade in multiple directions, for it was a privileged place of trade, combined with the monsoon regime. This article still addresses a fetishist injunction associated with Timor sandalwood