Praxis in the landscape and the experience of the ecological knowledge among quilombolas and caboclos (Atlantic Forest and Amazonia)

• Grant number: 16/04680-4
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Young Investigators Grants
• Start date: November 01, 2017
• End date: October 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Principal Investigator: Helbert Medeiros Prado
• Grantee: Helbert Medeiros Prado
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias para a Sustentabilidade (CCTS). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). Sorocaba , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Flavio Bezerra Barros ; Marcelo Nivert Schlindwein ; Rui Sérgio Sereni Murrieta
• Associated scholarship(s): 19/18730-1 - Connecting plants, animals and people: an ontological analysis from an ethnobiological approach among 'quilombolas' and 'caboclos' (Atlantic Forest and Amazonia), BP.MS; 18/20549-0 - Praxis in the landscape and the experience of the ecological knowledge among quilombolas and caboclos (Atlantic Forest and Amazonia), BP.IC; 18/19090-3 - Praxis in the landscape and the experience of the ecological knowledge among quilombolas and caboclos (Atlantic Forest and Amazonia), BP.IC; 17/25105-0 - Praxis in the landscape and the experience of the ecological knowledge among quilombolas and caboclos (Atlantic Forest and Amazonia), BP.JP

Abstract

In the field of Environmental Anthropology, the general model proposed by Tim Ingold, connecting the concept of praxis and the human perception (in the) environment, has been rarely incorporated in ethnobiological or ethnoecological studies. With the project, I propose to aggregate, a number of researchers, among biologists and anthropologists of national and international academic institutions, to explore the research gap above mentioned. To this end, the ethnographic contexts of the quilombolas from the Ribeira Valley (SP) and of the caboclos from the Amanã Reserve (AM) will be investigated. By comparing these two case studies, we will be able to analyze the connections between praxis and the environmental knowledge in the light of an ethnografic and ethnoecological approach. Finally, regarding the academic contributions of this project, we also hope to encourage the research dialogue between the ethnosciencies and the Environmental Anthropology, which is still very incipient in Brazil. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

PRADO, HELBERT MEDEIROS; DA SILVA, RAQUEL COSTA; SCHLINDWEIN, MARCELO NIVERT; MURRIETA, RUI SERGIO SERENI. Ethnography, ethnobiology and natural history: narratives on hunting and ecology of mammals among quilombolas from Southeast Brazil. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, v. 16, n. 1, FEB 21 2020. (17/25105-0, 16/04680-4)

PRADO, HELBERT MEDEIROS; MURRIETA, RUI SERGIO SERENI; SHEPARD, JR., GLENN HARVEY; DE LIMA SOUZA, TAMIRES; SCHLINDWEIN, MARCELO NIVERT. Sympathetic science: analogism in Brazilian ethnobiological repertoires among quilombolas of the Atlantic forest and Amazonian ribeirinhos. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, v. 18, n. 1, JAN 3 2022. (16/04680-4, 19/18730-1, 17/25105-0)