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Bicho, cura e magia! Práticas culturais e conhecimentos tradicionais na reserva extrativista Mapuá (Ilha do Marajó, Pará): uma perspectiva etnozoológica
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2018-05-04) JACINTO, Felipe Oliveira; BARROS, Flávio Bezerra; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4706140805254262
This dissertation presents an ethnographic study about the reunion of knowledge and cultural practices of the agroextractivists from Mapua Extractivist Reservation in Marajó Island, Pará State, Brazil. The principal aim was to describe and analyze the knowledge concerning traditional medicine, focusing on the medicinal uses of faunistic local resources. Participant observation and semi-structured interviews were the main methods used. The research documented the medical uses of 59 species of animals, as well the distinct categories of medical fauna attribution, such as remedies for physical diseases, spiritual diseases, and for hunters. We also discussed the symbolic attributions of the fauna, which is demonstrated as typically Amazonian worldview that appears indistinctly between the domains of nature and culture. The results present more than list of “animals” and their respective uses in local healing, but a rich biocultural patrimony involving social life, the natural world and cosmological life governed by the same categories. The present work highlights the importance of documenting the forest folk wisdom, regarding strategies to solve health problems based on the access to animals useful to humans.
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Conhecimento etnozoológico de estudantes de escolas públicas sobre os mamíferos aquáticos que ocorrem na Amazônia
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2015-03-30) RODRIGUES, Angélica Lúcia Figueiredo; SILVA, Maria Luisa da; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2101884291102108
Aquatic mammals are important functional elements of their ecosystem. Conservation actions would not be efficient with lack of information concerning the ecology and biology of those species as well as the perceptions that local communities have about those animals. Interactions of aquatic mammals with human populations happen mainly by fishnets accidents, straining, or the symbolic, mystical-religious values they possess, which may lead to both positive and negative human perceptions. Many studies on the perception of cetaceans (river dolphins and whales) and sirenians (manatees) were carried out using fisherman as the main interlocutor, but few have reported what children and young school age teenagers know about those animals and how they interact. The aim of this dissertation was to investigate school children’s ethnozoological knowledge on aquatic mammals in different locations of the State of Pará, in the Amazon Region of Brazil, recording the main interactions between them and free-ranging river dolphins, whales, and manatees (N=15). Thus, we used quantitative and qualitative methods in ethnozoology to analyze essays (N=374), interviews, questionnaires, and topographic plates (N=241). The subjects of this investigation were students from public fundamental schools II of Abaetetuba region and Mocajuba, in the Lower Tocantins River, Marajo Island, Santarém (Tapajós River), and Belem Metropolitan Region. Our results show that there was a prevalence of positive statements concerning to the pink-river dolphin (Inia sp.) (66%, N=89) compared to those related to dolphins Sotalia sp. (22%, N = 29), manatees (7%, N = 9) and whales (7%, N = 5%). Feelings of indifference (30%) along with fear (32%) were the most frequent in the voices of the students. Students had previous ethnozoological knowledge on morphology, diversity, legends, behavior, and threatening to aquatic mammal survival. In places where the living is largely based on fishery resources, young people tend to confirm details and part of the knowledge derived from both the family and the television midia. Because of the boto legend reported by the students in the regions surveyed we were able to identify variations related to social contexts and several behaviors, depending on the presence or absence of river dolphins in the regions. Despite great part of the subjects being part of an area considered to be urban, the belief on the boto legend is vastly disseminated, concurring for the myth to be held in the Amazonian imaginary, demonstrating that oral tradition is still strong in urban populations. Interactions between river dolphins and young/children close to rivers and fairs of Santarém and Mocajuba revealed that the most evident behaviors are those involving feeding river dolphins with fishes, and the playful behavior of a group of young school children that swim with pink-river dolphin in the rivers of the region. We found that although the aquatic mammals that occur in the Amazon may be poorly known from the biological point of view or even feared by part of the students, they could accepted by the students and may be taken into account in conservation programs by means of popular and scientific knowledge articulation. Those programs must guarantee the maintenance of local knowledge along with the species and their ecosystem maintenance. A greater perception of the public on the importance of biological diversity maintenance and environmental conservation may assist on the dissemination of information about aquatic mammals, contributing to a gradual deconstruction of negative values about them. This research provides a background to carry out efficient projects of awareness and information for future studies about aquatic mammals in the Amazon.
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Etnoconhecimentos sobre animais de pescadores artesanais na Amazônia costeira paraense
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2021-03) SANTOS, Claudia Nunes
The fauna diversity, as well as the human diversity, in Amazon has been studied by several specialists in search of understanding the life and evolution of this system. To overcome the limits of interpretations produced, besides using different tools, techniques and approaches from different scientific disciplines, it is necessary to consider the subjectivities pertaining to this complex. Local, traditional, or ethnoknowledge of different peoples and communities broadens the view on the socio-biodiversity. One effort that guide Ethnobiology is the break with a way of do research that separates society and nature, as well as the understanding that knowledge is built in the relationship between people researched and who research. Here, I present some conservationist inferences about interactions between fishermen with sea turtles and coastal birds. The surveys were carried out between 2015 and 2018, in six fishing communities in the municipalities of Bragança, Tracuateua and Salinópolis, in the state of Pará. The rich ethnozoologies and ethnotaxonomies of artisanal fishermen on local sea turtles and coastal birds, reveal a profound knowledge about these animals that are not of self-support or economic interest. Furthermore, fishermen's awareness of the importance of animals to ecosystems is an important ethnoknowledge for understanding human-animal relations, as well as for locally referenced preservation and management actions.
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Saberes e práticas tradicionais sobre recursos faunísticos e cultura alimentar na comunidade quilombola do Jacarequara, município de Santa Luzia do Pará, Amazônia Oriental
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2022-01-27) AVIZ, Manoel Fagno; FITA, Dídac Santos; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4290251127696280
This dissertation goals to describe and analyze the knowledge and practices involved with faunal resources in the Quilombola Community of Jacarequara, in the municipality of Santa Luzia do Pará, Northeast of Pará state, Eastern Amazon. From an ethnozoological approach, the principal aim of this research was to understand the role of faunal resources in food culture and, in ensuring food security for the families observed. Participant observation, semi-structured interviews, open interviews and free listing were the main methodological tools used in data collection during the fieldwork carried out in 2020. The socioeconomic profile described shows a community made up of families dependent on self-production of food and on income transfer programs for the subsistence of the domestic group. The interviews and observations evidenced an immense diversity of animals present in the local ecological knowledge, included in five types of uses: food, medicinal, ritualistic, artisanal and pet or domestic creation. In addition, the data obtained revealed the very rich ethnozoological knowledge existing in the community, with details of habitats, trophic ecology, ethology and reproductive cycle of the species of interest. Such knowledge proved essential in the design and choices of hunting and fishing strategies. Animal extractives (hunting and fishing) proved to be a fundamental part of the community's daily life, where both practitioners and non-practitioners of these techniques are involved. The faunal resources are important elements in the community's food culture, evidenced by the existing food preferences and rejections, both in the way of preparation and in the way of consumption, as well as in the choice of the animal, also affecting the food restrictions represented in the food taboos system, which it shows itself as a regulator of consumption of certain species. We realized that environmental characteristics are directly linked to food choices, therefore environmental impacts in the region would have a great influence on the community's food culture, which could affect the food security of families. In conclusion, faunal socio-biodiversity plays a fundamental role in ensuring food and nutrition security and the food culture of the investigated quilombola community.