Etnoconservação de sementes: trajetória, práticas e redes em comunidades indígenas Ticuna na Tríplice Fronteira Amazônica (Colômbia, Brasil e Peru)

Abstract

The Reserch about ethnoconservation of native seeds was worked in comunities indigenous tribe of the Ticuna of Amazonian Triple Frontier of Brazil, Colombia and Peru. The situation of Triple Frontier area caused changes to the Ticuna people since the times of colonization, and soon after the exploitation of rubber. The changes were found in their housing areas and in their traditional practices. The permanence of Ticuna people in the border situation until today, demonstrates the relationship with their surroundings, that due to their ancestral knowledge has allowed them their handling and use. But the growth of the population of indigenous communities and its proximity to the urban centers endangered their ways of living. The indigenous communities of the Umariaçu II in Brazil, of Gamboa in Peru and of San Sebastian de los Lagos in Colombia, considered as the study locations, provided an understanding of the ways of ethnoconservation seeds by the experiences of their daily lives, which showed their imaginary perspectives around the seeds. The contact with both, community residents and their local and regional environment, allows us to understand their close relationship with nature, represented in their traditional practices. This contributes to conservation and preservation of seeds. For this work the seeds are approached from the residents´ perspective through time and space, being framed in seed storage practices, craft practices and fishing beyond the meanings of seeds in their stories as in their rituals. Due to the complexity of the territory it takes a systemic approach by identifying networks in relation of the seeds that enables a local, regional and global understanding.