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| Author(s): |
Julien Marius Reis Thevenin
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | Presidente Prudente. 2017-04-25. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia. Presidente Prudente |
| Defense date: | 2017-03-06 |
| Advisor: | Edson Luís Piroli |
| Abstract | |
The relationship that social groups establish with nature is based upon representation and idea systems, mainly religious and philosophical. However, the urban and industrial society path, based on gains, has been leading to serious environmental problems, among them, the Amazon deforestation. It is in search for relations that attribute non-economic values to nature that this thesis initiates. Therefore, the formation of religious territories of organizations that make use of the tea Ayahuasca in their rituals in the state of Rondônia- BR is analyzed, with emphasis on men-nature interaction. Also known as religions of the forest, since they emerged in the first decades of the 20th century in the middle of the Amazon rainforest, these religions were founded by rubber tappers in three original branches: Santo Daime; Barquinha; and União Do Vegetal. The research on these institutional arrangements presented results that indicated success relations on forest conservation associated with a growing process of resacralization of nature. The Ayahuasca territorial expansion is related with the growth and maintenance of forests area for the planting of the species Banisteriopsis caapi and Psychotria viridis, which compose the tea Ayahuasca, in agroforestry systems and with the predominance of organic agriculture. In the 24 rural properties that were mapped, in oriented classification with high spatial resolution objects and images, 96,6% of the whole territory remains with arboreal coverage in early, intermediate to advanced stage of succession, being that in most cases, the coverage rates were higher than the rates required by Legal Reservation. In the landscape, many of these properties stand out as true forest islands in the middle of extensive areas that were deforested for pasture. The phytosociological parameters were, in most properties within normality, to the phytoecological regions in which they are inserted, except for some properties that are more susceptible to strong border effects. The growth of these territories also have shown to be associated with reforestation practices (either for the recovery of degraded areas or forest densification), with the presence of endangered species in 67,9%, from a total of 53 analyzed properties (among urban and rural), and with the respect and care for Nature along with the valorization of its spiritual aspects. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 13/02207-1 - Ayahuasqueiros territories and resacralization of nature: a search for new ways for forest conservation in the Amazon (Rondônia-Brazil) |
| Grantee: | Julien Marius Reis Thevenin |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |