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This paper aims to propose an epistemopolitical agenda for Anthropology from the Amazon, understood here as a peripheral, Latin American, original, and radical space. In this sense, we seek to defend the idea that the renovation, expansion, and consolidation of Brazilian social sciences necessarily starts from the peripheral institutions, especially in a context of sharpening authoritarian discourses and unrestricted adherence, still, to internal colonialism - epistemic, inclusive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rural Amazonian populations have been systematically affected by the implementation of large development projects. This case study aimed to identify the determinants of food in a rural community in Barcarena, Pará, which went through displacements and exposure to environmental contamination after the creation of the Industrial Park in the region. The Life History technique was used with a thematic focus on Food History, to seek to understand changes over time. Eight key informants who experienced community transitions were interviewed. Data were treated through Descriptive Analysis and Thematic Content Analysis. The results indicate that in the first two places of residence, food assumed a functionalist character, as an essential fact in the social organization, marked by solidarity relationships. The subsistence economy suffered ruptures due to the processes of economic and socio-environmental transformations imposed on the group, determining continuities and changes, causing a strong food transition, with effects still unknown. Dialectically, tradition is permeated by the new, (re) signification of the act of eating, but also reveals the history, place and identity of this group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text proposes the term candiru necropolitics to understand the atmospheric violence nowadays in Amazonia. This kind of violence joins the Amazonic contexts to the systematic deletion of corpses and territories that are considered socially dismissible, resorting to an idea of State lack that makes them possible. It's possible to highlight the theoretical studies about necropolitics and atmospheric violence, and, therefore, of epistemology that allows to question the hegemony in the knowledge output about the basic violences of subjects and colonized territories. Thereby, it's possible to affirm that the annihilation of trans people reveal regulation not only on the gender and sexuality area but an entire necropolitics grammar that founds corpses/territories through the violence in Amazonia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 2000 municipal elections in Soure, Pará, were preceded by a serious political crisis, experienced with a wide use of symbolic resources, making the October election a "salvation". The elected mayor articulated the support of various religious and cultural leaders present in the city, giving a "purifying" tone to his candidacy and his victory. The following year, there was fierce competition between leaders of the city's main religiosities, Catholics, Pentecostals and shamans, who sought to optimize their participation in the "salvation" of the municipality. This competition allows a re- flection, from this case, on the dynamics of contemporary Brazilian religiosity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article proposes a reconstitution in time of land regularization policies in Brazil, emphasizing the set of important normative transformations and administrative procedures observed over little more than a decade. It points to an intense effort to promote land tenure regularization that combined the most varied interests, actors and ideological nuances to regularize the vast stock of Amazonian lands. The environment favorable to the formalization of the land market and tolerant of illegalities encourages deforestation, encourages the expansion of illegal possessions and promotes an environment of insecurity and violence against the traditional communities of the Amazon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How and why people construct, maintain, and transform the material styles associated with cultural boundaries is a central issue in understanding continuity and change in the archaeological record. Questions about transmission of domestic pottery style from mother to daughter in matrilocal societies were a fundamental impetus for the development of many archaeologists' interests in learning and cultural transmission. In such contexts, archaeologists initially expected strong intergenerational continuity in pottery style and well-delineated social boundaries. However, continuity in material culture is not simply the result of unconscious transmission of ideas from generation to generation, a form of native conservatism, or a propensity to do things in the same way as the previous generation, according to the manner in which one is taught. As shown in ethnoarchaeological research conducted in the Zapara Territory of the Ecuadorian Amazon, similarities and differences in women's pottery style can be associated with women's active strategies of signifying and building political alliances through their lives, even though kinship, the early learning context, and status also are important contributing factors. These political strategies of signification may change through women's lives, consistent with different stages of life history and the developmental cycle of their communities of practice. Patterned variation in pottery style may be understood in these terms, across time and space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Within the context of territorial reoccupation, the current study seeks to analyze how swidden management practices contribute to the construction of an indigenous territoriality among the Tembé in the Upper Rio Guamá Indigenous Territory. Swidden management in the study area is a strategy employed to use and appropriate space in the reoccupied area. The study used a qualitative ethnographic approach, involving participant observation and semistructured interviews. The strong relationship between manioc fields and the territory is materialized through the rituals performed with the manioc variety Mandiocaba during the Festa da Menina Moça. Swiddens also allow for the circulation and exchange of manioc varieties within the same villages and between villages in the indigenous territory. Exchanges are reciprocal and made possible through forms of social organization rooted in the territory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fishing is an essential activity to rural livelihoods in the Amazon. This article discusses the learning and reproduction of fishing practices in riverside communities of the Amanã Sustainable Development Reserve (RDSA), Amazonas, Brazil. The study was based on ethnographic research on learning fishing practices that, ultimately, enable the person 'to become a fisherman'. Those processes include fishing experiences during childhood, the development of skills that enable them to 'take care of their own canoe', and the ways of reproducing knowledge in fishing environments. Furthermore, we discuss how the participatory management of pirarucu, an activity that started 20 years ago in the region, required the development of new skills of collective organization of labor for the management of fishery resources. Fishermen, who previously did not know how to harpoon pirarucus, learned it by engaging in management activities. Working in fishing produces riverine territoriality. The engagement of subjects in fishing practices is a process that produces bodies, identities and landscapes. These are processes that continue to reproduce themselves due to the existence of and access to the territory, which allows for the construction of 'dispositions for action' or 'affective capabilities' in learning cycles in communities of practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research is based on an ethnographic report concerning the knowledge protected by the tableware makers (craftswomen) of the Maruanum, in the state of Amapá, Brazilian Amazon. It is proposed an analysis centered on the reading of elements that compose the concrete and intersubjective language of the objects made by the ceramists with the intention of revealing their current sociocultural and identity characteristics. Based on a qualitative approach, with an exploratory-descriptive and interpretive objective, theoretical, documental and field researches are conducted. This text introduces a continuous sharing experience that seeks new ways of looking at subjects and objects. In a given social reality, the central issues turn to the importance of valuing the craftswomen traditional knowledge and the preservation and conservation of quilombo art, which provides inspiring elements for human creativity, social relations and harmony with nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Result of field research on the Marabá, a city located in southeastern Pará, the article analyzes through reports of fishermen, mourners, vendors, and residents of the surroundings, the relationship between the advancement of the new coronavirus and the effects of enchanted beings that inhabit the Tocantins River. Enchantment of porpoises, snakes, and other aquatic beings are mobilized in local experiences as a cosmological background to understand the new coronavirus the agglomerations, and the current scientific interpretations of social behavior in the Amazon context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we intend to discuss ethnography based on its practice, having as its object almost seven years of research - from August 2011 to January 2018 - in a popular fair located in Belém do Pará, Brazilian Amazon. It starts from the phenomenological perspective of experiencing the flesh of the world and seeks to observe how this flesh, this materiality, conforms through social forms and the sensitivity socially, intersubjectively, shared. In this process, it is evident how the construction of the ethnographic process done on foot took place, based on participant observation, from near and inside of those elements and contents that make up the fair as such: people and material and immaterial things in their concreteness, that is, at the time of their achievements; the sensibilities of all orders. This ethnographic, sensorial and phenomenological practice, values the researcher's sensoriality and conscience when being affected by the world of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper summarises recent test excavations at five Mound Village sites in the south-eastern sector of Acre state, Brazil, including Caboquinho, Boa Esperança, Tocantins, Dois Círculos IV and V. Radiocarbon dates obtained from the excavation of these sites refine the chronology of this archaeological tradition. To improve the chronologies of the mound villages in Acre for which radiocarbon dates were available, we modelled them using Bayesian statistics. Bayesian modelling of new radiocarbon dates from basal contexts of nine sites in the region establish the beginning of this archaeological tradition at ~ AD 952-1216. Nine dates from ten construction phases at the Caboquinho site establish the longest sequence from ~ AD 1169-1309 to colonial times. The stratigraphy of the test units reported in this study confirms previous results indicating that mounds are the result of alternating construction and occupation episodes. Dates from the Dois Círculos IV Rectangular Mound Village ~ AD 1367-1451 indicates that Rectangular Villages are broadly contemporaneous with Circular Mound Villages. Single dates from three superimposed villages at Dois Círculos V suggest the succession of village construction. Overall, these preliminary results make a contribution to a better understanding of the timing of emergence and demise of Mound Village construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is a narrative effort about the importance of the legacy of Denise Pahl Schaan, an archaeologist and anthropologist, an academic partner who remained associated with the Federal University of Pará between 2004, when she joined the institution, and 2018, when she died. Emphasis is placed on the author's academic contribution and her legacy of unique quality regarding the constitution of the field of Archeology at the University. There were 14 years of intense work that resulted in countless actions. Among them are a magazine, a graduate program and the training of many professionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this article is to analyze how the residents of the rural quilombola community of Castanhalzinho, in Concórdia do Pará, develop everyday forms of resistance to the oil palm industry. The methodology consisted of a case study with participant observation and semi-structured and open interviews with members of all local families. We conclude that the main forms of resistance were the denial of sale of land to the agroindustry, which included an open manifestation of quilombola associations, the rejection of the rules of wages in plantations, the discourse on the effects of palm oil cultivation and the persistence of access to resources in the reserve of the company, previously public. The everyday resistance is based on the cohesion of the group supported by reciprocity, religiosity, kinship and autonomy at work and aims at the persistence in the territory without submission to the effects of the palm oil cultivation and the mechanisms of domination by more powerful groups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The National School Feeding Program (PNAE) aims to contribute to the biopsychosocial development, school performance and the formation of healthy eating habits in Brazilian public schools. However, in quilombola territory, the offer of meals by the program often conflicts with the groups' history and food identity. In this article, we analyze the relationship between the quilombo of Umarizal (Baião, Pará) and the school meals, and discuss how local individuals perceive the program and how it participates in the local sociocultural reality. For this, qualitative methodology such as direct observation, interviews, and focus group was used. Data were analyzed according to ethnographic research parameters. The results show that there is a discontinuity between the PNAE and the quilombo food culture, causing a mismatch between the food offered at school and the local culture. This flaw needs to be corrected to promote equal learning opportunities for the students across the country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the recent processes of territorialization and identity recognition of the Rosa community at the beginning of the 21st century. The objective of the research is to understand its process of self-identification as a quilombola remnant and the specific territorialization engendered by this identification. The methodology is based on Historical Ethnography, with fieldworks in the community from 2017 to 2019. The results indicate that the territorialization process triggered by the Rosa community is a global transformation process of multiple dimensions. It includes self-demarcation actions, such as the action to expel the mining company from its territory; multi-territoriality actions, such as the actions led by members of the community in deliberative instances of the instituted political power; it includes access to citizenship through the legal support provided by the State; it encompasses ethnogenesis, as self-recognition as quilombola; and actions that imply strengthening territoriality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A presente reflexão percorre o contexto vivenciado pelos quilombolas do Forte Príncipe da Beira, no município de Costa Marques, estado de Rondônia, em especial no que diz respeito aos conflitos com o Exército brasileiro, que mantém um pelotão de fronteira junto ao território tradicionalmente ocupado pela comunidade. Nessa peculiar situação, o recorte da análise é feito a partir do ano de 2014, quando o Ministério Público Federal impetrou uma Ação Civil Pública, com objetivo de assegurar o reconhecimento e titulação da área. Até o momento em que se escreve, embora não tenha ocorrido o pleno reconhecimento dos direitos nos termos do Artigo 68, do ADCT/CF-88, muito se caminhou com a judicialização deste conflito histórico, no sentido de garantir segurança jurídica à ocupação territorial, salvaguardar direitos fundamentais e acesso às políticas públicas à comunidade quilombola. O artigo analisa esta ação judicial e as peças periciais antropológicas produzidas no contexto dela, conjugando-as ao trabalho etnográfico realizado tanto na comunidade quanto nas audiências judiciais, observando as racionalidades distintas que operam, as mediações realizadas e quais suas consequências para, ao final, ponderar acerca dos papéis do Direito na defesa (ou não) dos direitos das comunidades remanescentes de quilombos, bem como o da Antropologia no reconhecimento desses grupos e na titulação de seus territórios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the results of my master's research with actors of the mobilization for the creation of the Tapajós State, in this article I will describe a few actions/justifications mobilized by my interlocutors to demonstrate/produce/agency affections around the "cause" in the city of Santarém, the location that most supported the project in the context of the plebiscite held in 2011. My intentions are to demonstrate how the "cause" could grow from a successful capture of a series of diffuse affects related to the term "Tapajós" was crucial for the growing of the "cause" and to present some considerations about how the language of the affects actuate in the process of producing adhesion to controversial political projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study aimed to register the knowledge of the residents of the Boca do Arapiri community in Alenquer, Pará on the use, behavior and trophic ecology of the main animal species. The data were obtained through semi-structured interviews, analyzed through the categorization of the content of the answers and by means of an emicist/ethicist approach, with elaboration of a comparative cognition frame. It was found that fishing is the main activity developed by the community to obtain food and income. The acarí (Pterygoplichthys spp.), curimatã (Prochilodus nigricans), mapará (Hypophthalmus spp.) and cujuba (Oxydoras niger) stood out as the most consumed fish in the community. The fishermen showed an extensive knowledge about the use of available resources in their environment, providing important information on ecology, behavior, feeding and reproductive habits of the most common species in the region, which may assist in the development of measures to protect resources and valuation of this knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ethnographic ground of this work is the Wayo 'at Kanã, a women's party held by the Karo-Arara. I offer a description and an analysis of the ritual because I believe that in this spacetime the female agency is shown on another face, one that is averse to any characterization of domesticity, interiority or consanguinity, ordinary attributions to the female universe in southern American ethnology. What this party makes appear, when read from the point of view of another party with which it has a somewhat specular relationship, is the immanent alterity to the female position and the predatory capacity of women. The reflection presented here is also an initial formulation of the relationship between perspective and gender. From the interpretation of the ritual, I assume there is a variation between one (or two) gender-determined viewpoint(s) and a human viewpoint that eclipses gender. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is the result of an ethnography based on my experience as an environmental consultant during the construction of Belo Monte dam. In particular, about my participation as a researcher in the Complementary Studies of the Bacajá River, which, following the determination of the Brazilian Indigenous Foundation, focused on the ecological aspects of the Bacajá river, especially the ways of life of the Xikrin population located on the banks of the river. The analysis of this field raises a timely reflection on "corporate indigenism" practice, a process that, accordingly to Stephen Baines, submits the legal and administrative order of the state's indigenist policies to the private interests of companies and corporations engaged in the installation of enterprises in, across or on the frontiers of indigenous territories. I intend to problematize the practical structure of corporate indigenism in order to explore how its rules and principles (bureaucratic and techno-scientific) disguise the destructive temporality of capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects on the effects of the construction of the Belo Monte dam, visible in the streets of Altamira, registered in photographic images, evidenced in the speeches of its residents or those who carry out professional activities and in commerce. Present at different moments in the city, notes and photographs were accumulated since before the dam was implemented in 2009 until 2016, so that in addition to this record, the memory of the researchers, of different actors and positions of social actors on Belo Monte is triggered for the elaboration of this paper. It is concluded by the finding of the end of a boiling cycle and turmoil in the social and economic life of the city, to a moment of depression, lethargy, deceleration, expectation and disenchantment caused by the demobilization of the resources used for this project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On the border between the states of Pará and Amapá lies one of the largest Brazilian nut massifs in the Amazon. In this region, nut gatherers have been engaged for decades in the extraction of nuts for consumption and/or commercialization. Since the 1990s, national and transnational companies have approached these populations with the intention of proposing business and establishing partnerships. This paper aims to present part of the process of forest certification of the nut woods of RDS Iratapuru, reflecting on its implications and effects. On the one hand, the certification enabled the extractive community to expand its business partners, among them the Brazilian cosmetic company Natura S/A. On the other hand, it required nut gatherers to make significant changes and adaptations. The ethnography was attentive to the disagreements within these agreements and sought to offer a reflection on the divergent understandings and on their stabilization processes, demonstrating that during the forest certification the knowledge of the nut gatherers is confronted to the knowledge of engineers, environmental technicians and forest management specialists. The paper argues that although the difference of assumptions that guide the considered knowledge is striking, it does not obstruct the capacity for communication and movement of both ways of knowing. In this sense, the anthropological literature on predation appears as an analogous way to understand the conflict of presuppositions and their possible arrangements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper deals with a series of urns and vessels related to burial practices probably of indigenous Mundurucu, in the lower Tapajós River, from the archaeological site of Nossa Senhora do Perpétuo Socorro (N.S.P. Socorro) - Itaituba, Pará. The paper then evaluates the similarities with ethnohistorical and archaeological data on funerary practices in the region, the description of the excavations in laboratory, presenting data and interpretations on the osteological traces found, contributing to the debates about funerary practices in the Amazon region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last three years, indigenous groups of three distinct ethnicity, who until then had no permanent relationship with the State or even with the surrounding society, began receiving constant and permanent health assistance from the Brazilian government. Among the policies applied to them, we highlight the beginning of biomedical interventions in two groups of Korubo ethnicity in the Indigenous Land of Vale do Javari, Amazonas. Based on the authors' experience, this manuscript aims to report and refl ect on the sanitary situation, the medical care and other health actions involved in the current processes of interethnic contact, especially in the events occurring in the Indigenous Territory (TI) of Vale do Javari involving the Korubo ethnicity. The aim is, thus, to contribute to a refl ection on the current epidemiological context of the indigenous peoples who are recently inserted in a zone of contact with agents of the Brazilian State, as well as to raise subsidies for the planning of health actions in a contact situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This manuscript deals with the contemporary lifestyles of a family of artisanal fishermen in the district of Alter do Chão, in Santarém/PA. It is an exploratory study whose analyses seek to establish the hypothesis that the social actors involved in the study mobilize different maneuvers and strategies to escape the difficulties encountered in their "primordial" craft, the fishing. New social configurations within the village and the advancement of external economic forces complicate the social reproduction and the condition of local artisanal fisherman. The data collected in the field from ethnographic immersion highlights aspects of the way of life of these social actors that approximate them of the characterization of polyvalent fishermen in the terms of Furtado (1990, 1993) and which indicate the need for an approach that considers historical and geographical particularities, individual trajectories and relational situations. Thus, it is concluded in the first instance that the native understanding of the fishermen on the meanings of experience and survival strategy is of great value both in the "tricks" to capture the fish and in the "tricks of life" and that multicultural contexts, due mainly to the consolidation of tourism in a small locality, can generate new world perspectives from the contact between cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present manuscript aims to analyze the social conflict regarding the capture of the black-bellied whistling duck in the Extractive Marine Reserve of Tracuateua on the coast of Pará. This practice is known locally as "duck fishing". A case study was conducted in three communities located in the area surrounding the reserve, through interviews (non-directive and semi-structured) and direct observations. The social conflict is related to divergent opinions, interests and needs regarding the use of common resources. The analysis indicates that the conflict is at a high level of escalation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This manuscript analyzes the socio-environmental aspects of the pirarucus (Arapaima gigas) management project developed by a collective of fishermen and fisherwomen living in four communities of the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve (MSDR), state of Amazonas, in the Jutaí-Cleto lakes system. The objective is to describe the way of organizing the work for the capture of animals, and to highlight the importance of this project for the conservation of fishery resources in the Amazonian floodplain, and for the reproduction of traditional ecological knowledge and fishing techniques. The data analyzed results from surveys conducted between 2011 and 2016 with this group of managers, obtained using participatory methodologies, with direct observation of their practices, participation in meetings and conducting formal interviews with fishermen and fisherwomen. The manuscript shows that the traditional ecological knowledge is combined with scientific knowledge, allowing fishermen to make decisions about when and where to fish in the lakes. The organization of the managed fisheries work is guided by concepts such as equality, cooperation, and gender equity, but the division of the group into teams and the field of expertise on the ecology and behavior of animals, and on the characteristics of the environment, have an impact on fishery productivity and on the individualization of the gains. We conclude by showing that the management project is contributing to the circularity of knowledge related to pirarucus fishing, and the importance of the participation of women, creating the conditions for children to be involved in this activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the linguistic and socio-racial prejudice experienced by people with sickle cell disease (SCD) in the State of Pará, both in Public and Private Health Services as wells as in School, Family and Work, it is the result of a field research with 45 interlocutors who live with the disease and who receive numerous nicknames (insults) because of their genetic condition. The methodology was based on qualitative research at the Hematology and Hemotherapy Center of the State of Pará – HEMOPA Foundation (2010-2011), after approval by the Hemocenter Research Ethics Committee, with semi-structured interviews on how to live with the SCD in Pará, an ethnographic study and a bibliographical review on the subject. The objective was to classify the linguistic and socio-racial prejudice experienced by individuals with SCD as a Social Determinant of Health (DSS), which makes their health and life situation a problem to be faced. The results indicate that 57% of the people interviewed have already suffered some type of prejudice – whether linguistic and/or socio-racial – and that the daily bio social of the interlocutors with the disease is considered as difficult to experience. Living with nicknames qualified by the ‘strength’ of the Portuguese Language is seen as a requirement of public health and analyzed as a DSS because it involves situations of racism and intolerance with the Other, besides the misinformation about the SCD, both of those who practice and who deal with the prejudice. Thus, it is of fundamental importance that SCD be a matter of dissemination among the competent sectors in order to increase knowledge and information about the disease and, so, to obtain the improvement of the health situation of subjects with SCD in the State of Pará. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article, written in essay rhetoric, proposes an approach to the understanding of sexual and gender diversity and deviations from a queer perspective based on colonial criticism and political, historical and cultural structures of normalization and consolidation of the heteropatriarchal, white, modern and middle class praxis. Thus, the proposal of the text is to show an overlap among categories such as race, ethnicity, gender, and others, to be understood within a radical epistemopolitical view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on historical elements of a rubber estate, located on the margins of the Iaco river, east of Acre, as narrated by their inhabitants. This constructed past points to the loss of importance of cutting rubber in the settlements, with the patrons of beforetime leaving the scene and the deconstruction of the rubber estate enterprise. In this context, many of the members of the domestic groups left the rubber estate, moving to the street (urban areas) or to other rural areas. However, many others stayed living there, indicating that other factors, besides the economical, were taken into account. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article deals with the place attributed to indigenous peoples in the official history of the state of Acre. Starting with the notion of Amazonism, I discuss Western imaginary about the Amazon and its first inhabitants with an emphasis on its deep ambiguity. I show how this imaginary served as a guide to the conquest of Acre during the rubber boom and how the region's indigenous peoples were initially marginalized and excluded from its history in order to boost the colonizers' heroism. It was only in the 1970s that the Indians acquired some visibility after they organized themselves as political actors in a new colonization context of the region. Lastly, I analyze a contemporary situation which, although more favorable to the Indians, reinvents an idyllic history and continues to reproduce Western stereotypes about these peoples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this research is to assess the nutritional status and growth of children living in three Quilombola communities of Pará State, Amazônia, Brazil. We conducted a cross-sectional study to analyze 48 children between 0-5 years of age, representing over 70% of the population of this age group in the quilombos of Santo Antônio, África/Laranjituba e Mangueiras. Anthropometric measurements followed international standard procedures and data were converted to Z-scores using the WHO-Anthro program. Weight/Height (W/H), Height/Age (H/A), Weight/Age (W/A) and Body Mass Index/Age (BMI/A) were descriptors of nutritional status on all track groups. A significant percentage of children present deviation in their growth and nutritional status in relation to the international references. When evaluating the W/H and BMI/A, a considerable number of children above the Z- -score +1 (29.9%) is observed, highlighting a growing number of cases of overweight and obesity. However, when analyzing H/A, 31.1 % of children are below -2 Z-scores, showing that stunting is still a problem among these Quilombola remnants. The Quilombola children analyzed still have difficulties to achieve health and their full potential for growth, obstacles related to the socio-demographic, sanitary, and ecologic conditions in which they live. Concomitant with the scenario of under-nutrition, there is a considerable prevalence of overweight among these children, confirming the nutritional transition process taking place in the Amazon region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on tobacco, snuff occupies a special place in shamanism among indigenous groups in the middle Purus (Amazon region). The article focuses on the use and meaning of snuff among some of these groups, contributing for the understanding of the snuff's role, and shamanic practices in the region, taking in account the several beings that make part of their cosmologies. The authors present a multisited study based on historical and etnographic sources. The data point to an unavoidable connection between snuff and shamanism in the middle Purus, helping to understand the various indigenous groups as a system in communication, beyond historic or ethnonymic differences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay proposes a quick and critical overview of the 'ontologies of seeing' in Amazonia by investigating the Amazonian theme of shamanism, as elaborated in Piro and Araweté ethnographies, to relate it to two concepts of Gilles Deleuze's philosophy, which I consider important theoretical tools in achieving this purpose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sickle Cell Anemia (SCA) is a chronic, hereditary disease with high prevalence among people of African descent in Brazil. There are few studies about the reality of the affected individuals in the Amazon. SCA can be considered a biocultural disease as it involves evolutionary, genetic, environmental socioeconomic and cultural aspects which influence the daily living of the patients. This qualitative, ethnographic research was conducted with a sample of 40 individuals HB*SS -- or their parents, when children -- from several municipalities of Pará State representing about 10% of the people in treatment at the Pará State reference center on blood diseases. The study investigates the social vulnerability, life experiences, perceptions of health and illness, use of folk medicine, stigma and prejudice suffered, and difficulty of access to public health services (SUS) of the individuals affected in order to understand the experience of living with SCA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]