tereré
dish / dish-terere
テレレ
Tereré is a way of drinking mate brewed with cold water, described as originating in Paraguay. Traditionally, a herbaceous plant called pohã ñana is crushed in a mortar and added. It uses the same vessel and bombilla (drinking straw) as mate. It was inscribed on UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2020.
Photographs (captions in Japanese)
A silver-decorated cow-horn vessel (guampa) and bombilla (drinking straw) used for drinking tereré in Paraguay. No people are shown.
DishShown: Not applicable (beverage)Part / state: Vessel (guampa) and bombilla
Photo: Osval (Osvaldo Fernández Künzle) / Public domain / original image / ledger's original image
Scope and provenance of the photo
Identification: Identified as labelled in the source. The originally selected candidate, Tereré.jpg (a direct photograph showing the drink itself), was rejected because a person appeared in the background behind the pitcher, and it was replaced with a photograph of the equipment in which no person appears. Note that this is a photograph of equipment essential to the way of drinking tereré, and the drink itself (mate and cold water) is not shown.
Image shown: No resizing, trimming, or color changes. The original image from Wikimedia Commons is used as it is. For display, a WebP capped at 1200 px wide is served; the ledger's original image can be checked from the link above.
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Tereré is a drink described as originating in Indigenous Guaraní culture. It is prepared by mixing cold water with pohã ñana (a herbaceous plant; the nomination document's original wording is "hierba medicinal") crushed in a mortar. Like mate, it is served in the same type of vessel and drunk through a bombilla (drinking straw). This description comes from Paraguay's UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage nomination; it is not quantitative evidence of regional or generational differences.
In December 2020, tereré was inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity under the name 『pohã ñanaの文化におけるtereréの伝統的実践と知識、パラグアイの祖先由来のグアラニー飲料』 (in translation: "Traditional practices and knowledge of tereré in the culture of pohã ñana, an ancestral Guaraní drink in Paraguay"). The nomination says that preparation follows a predetermined sequence of practices, and describes the time and space in which tereré is consumed as fostering social cohesion, inclusion, friendship, dialogue, respect, and solidarity. This is Paraguay's own nomination text, not an account independently verified by a third party.
The UNESCO nomination says that traditional practical knowledge concerning tereré has been passed on within Paraguayan families since at least the 16th century. However, it does not set out in detail the historical sources supporting that starting point.
Sources for this overview
Checked for this overview: Checked the preparation using pohã ñana and the use of a bombilla. / Checked the name and rationale of the 2020 UNESCO Representative List inscription. / Checked the account of transmission within families since the 16th century.
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Culture (3)
Scope: Paraguay
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dish-terere —is_defined_as→ (the claim sentence above)Scope: Paraguay
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