Trajetórias das práticas alimentares na comunidade Quilombola de Bairro Alto, Ilha do Marajó, Salvaterra – Pará

Abstract

This research proposes a reflection on the processes that involve the alimentary trajectory of the quilombola community Bairro Alto, Salvaterra municipality, Ilha do Marajó, Pará State. I started from the cultural dimensions in the context of knowledge and practices, the ways of producing, obtaining, preparing, packaging and consuming food in the quilombo. Guided by the timeline, I also outline striking events such as endogenous and exogenous conflicts, care policies such as family grants and also "new formats" of income, and how these processes affect food and nutritional security in the community in question. From the situational croqui, inspired by the New Social Cartography of the Amazon (PNCSA), I present the use of the territory in the past, present and future, and relate food sovereignty, agroecology and permaculture to the territorial management of projects desired by the community studied. Field research occurred in the year 2016 and used as a method, from a systemic approach, free list, semi-structured interviews, participant observation, collective construction of situational croqui and ethnophotography. The research showed that the quilombolas of Bairro Alto consume 238 food items from different sources and categories, which represent the domain of living knowledge of the appropriation of nature for food purposes, although many of these foods are industrialized. The yearning for community projects reflects the need to seek new sources of income where environmental quality is restored and the community links present in the territory can be rescued in some parts and innovated in others. Territorial management mechanisms will be extremely important in order to be able to assess the necessary areas and their respective uses in the short, medium and long term in order to guarantee the reproduction of the local culture and generate social, economic and environmental benefits.