(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2017-12) MIRANDA, Leila Mourão
This article discusses the past/present in the perspective of explaining and
understanding the knowledge contained in the metaphors of the language about
the origin and importance of vegetal products, used in indigenous food in the
Amazon. The analysis of generation and mental/intellectual production of the
social mechanisms of selection, appropriation and institutionalization informs the
processes of transmission of knowledge. It seeks to reflect and understand the
relationships existing between the components of the sociocultural group and
their environments. It also emphasizes the specific procedures adopted in the
production of knowledge that conforms and shapes the relationship in a world
that originates in the process of living.
