A produção científica da UFPA sobre conhecimentos tradicionais: análise das teses e dissertações disponíveis no Banco de Teses da Capes

Abstract

Investigates the scientific production of the Federal University of Pará on traditional knowledge, based on the theses and dissertations available at the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Level Personnel Bank of Theses, in order to verify how the subject has been approached in the institution. It uses data analysis, french line discourse analysis and contributions of bibliometrics, constituting a qualitative-quantitative study. The results indicate that the theme is current and of interest to Federal University of Pará in several areas of knowledge. They also verify that the local discussions on the theme follow the context of the national and international approaches, yet have their own characteristics related to the location where the institution is located, the Amazon region. Finally, conclude that the analysis of the scientific production of an institution shows promise for the understanding of how certain topics have been approached, in this case, the traditional knowledge.