Extrativism and the relations with nature in maroon communities in the Trombetas River, Oriximiná, Pará State

• Grant number: 13/01599-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: June 01, 2013
• End date: September 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Theory of Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Nádia Farage
• Grantee: Igor Alexandre Badolato Scaramuzzi
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This project will consist of an ethnography of social practices and forms of knowledge related the world of plants and animals in maroon communities (comunidades quilombolas) of Rio Trombetas / Oriximiná in the State of Pará, Brazil. Its focus will be on the extraction of "Brazil nuts" (Bertholletia excelsa), activity of great importance to those communities - since the slavery period, when those communities were founded until the present day -. The effort will be to seek practices and conceptions concerning ways of socializing with nature with an emphasis on the relations and systems of production, transmission, distribution and management of knowledge and practices related to plants and animals. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

SCARAMUZZI, Igor Alexandre Badolato. Extractivism and relations with nature in maroon comumunities of the Trombetas river/Oriximiná/PA. 2016. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas Campinas, SP.