O viver e o fazer construindo mundos

Abstract

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.