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Este artigo faz o registro da experiência de educomunicação com populações ribeirinhas da Amazônia, a partir do ensino da produção de jornais murais nas escolas locais. O trabalho é fruto de uma pesquisa-ação realizada a partir da participação de uma das autoras no Projeto Doutores das Águas, em abril de 2024. O trabalho se apoia no conceito de educomunicação com a criação de uma apostila sobre gêneros jornalísticos, para crianças e adolescentes ribeirinhos, capaz de provocar o posicionamento crítico de comunidades invisíveis ao Estado. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article seeks to discuss the associations elaborated by riverine interlocutors between infrastructures and the landscape in which they occur, within the context of climate change in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. Here, we debate the relational character of infrastructures, and how they act as important markers of river seasonality, landscape, people's existence, and practices from the perspective of the accessed riverine people. This paper's discussion is supported by qualitative data from semi-structured interviews and field notes from two riverine communities in the Amazonas state: Tumbira and Lago do Catalão. Inspired by authors who dialogue with Social Studies of Science and Technology and discuss infrastructures, their effects, their relational and ontological character, we seek to identify entanglements of landscape and infrastructure, and their implications in the practices and ways of living of riverine Amazonian people. Elements such as gas pipelines, power transmission lines, hydroelectric plants, cargo ships, and highways emerge, affect, and are affected in these entangled landscapes in the eyes of the riverine people. They merge with other entanglements such as the rivers and creeks that perform the riverine landscape and life. Thus, they induce reflections on such relationships and the affectations permeated by fears, wishes, and (dis)trust of their operation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ABSTRACT Objective: Tuberculosis (TB) is the second most deadly infectious disease globally, posing a significant burden in Brazil and its Amazonian region. This study focused on the “riverine municipalities” and hypothesizes the presence of TB clusters in the area. We also aimed to train a machine learning model to differentiate municipalities classified as hot spots vs. non-hot spots using disease surveillance variables as predictors. Methods: Data regarding the incidence of TB from 2019 to 2022 in the riverine town was collected from the Brazilian Health Ministry Informatics Department. Moran’s I was used to assess global spatial autocorrelation, while the Getis-Ord GI* method was employed to detect high and low-incidence clusters. A Random Forest machine-learning model was trained using surveillance variables related to TB cases to predict hot spots among non-hot spot municipalities. Results: Our analysis revealed distinct geographical clusters with high and low TB incidence following a west-to-east distribution pattern. The Random Forest Classification model utilizes six surveillance variables to predict hot vs. non-hot spots. The machine learning model achieved an Area Under the Receiver Operator Curve (AUC-ROC) of 0.81. Conclusion: Municipalities with higher percentages of recurrent cases, deaths due to TB, antibiotic regimen changes, percentage of new cases, and cases with smoking history were the best predictors of hot spots. This prediction method can be leveraged to identify the municipalities at the highest risk of being hot spots for the disease, aiding policymakers with an evidenced-based tool to direct resource allocation for disease control in the riverine municipalities.

Este trabalho é o resultado de uma pesquisa mais ampla de mestrado que tem como foco apresentar as diferentes dinâmicas vivenciadas por moradores de uma comunidade ribeirinha da Amazônia Paraense, chamada de Carapanatuba, no interior do município de Santarém. O modo de vida e a dinâmica territorial das populações ribeirinhas são objetos de estudo em várias ciências, e aqui somos pautados na ciência geográfica, com auxílio de autores como Santos (2002), Souza, (2018) e Tuan (2012) nas abordagens de categorias de espaço e lugar, que amparam para a compreensão dos espaços de vivência dos moradores de Carapanatuba. Para a aquisição das informações foram realizados trabalhos de campo, com o uso de entrevistas e de outros instrumentos como celular, caderno de campo, entre outros. A Fenomenologia também foi utilizada como método de análise, pois cria pontes para que tenhamos acesso às informações e às percepções mais apuradas para ouvir, olhar, sentir, perceber e avaliar todos os fenômenos que transpassam a pesquisa. Mediante as observações e dos diálogos realizados durante o trabalho sobre as vivências dos pescadores com seus espaços/lugares de vida, é perceptível a relação afetivas dos pescadores para com a sua casa, que para eles é vista como um “porto seguro”, com as suas embarcações, com a comunidade, com o rio. E que nas pequenas práticas cotidianas em que são socializados os saberes sobre a dinâmica da natureza, é onde se constroem relações simbólicas e afetivas para com seus lugares de vida e trabalho.

Este artigo analisa o deslocamento dos ribeirinhos para os reassentamentos de Novo Engenho Velho e Riacho Azul, no município de Porto Velho-RO, em função da construção da Usina Hidrelétrica Santo Antônio, no rio Madeira. A pesquisa teve caráter quantitativo/descritivo, com algumas informações qualitativas, a partir de análise documental, entrevistas semiestruturadas e questionários. Compuseram a amostra três representantes da usina e 28 famílias dos reassentamentos. Os resultados mostram uma visão dos representantes da usina associada aos objetivos da política de desenvolvimento de infraestrutura no país. A partir do apoio às novas habitações e às novas atividades produtivas os gestores consideram que propiciaram condições para que os ribeirinhos deslocados mantivessem suas estruturas familiares, de vizinhança e socioeconômicas, embora cientes das mudanças necessárias nesse processo. Na percepção dos antigos ribeirinhos, trata-se de enfrentar o rompimento de um modo de vida organizado às margens do rio, com as consequências de um deslocamento para outros lugares, em que as antigas condições familiares, sociais e econômicas não se reproduzem e as novas condições apresentam diversas fragilidades, em especial as interdições à atividade de pesca, a pior qualidade da terra para agricultura e o funcionamento deficitário dos equipamentos de saúde, educação e saneamento.

This article aims to understand how linguistic practices present in the local lexicon reveal kinship practices among riverine inhabitants of the Paraense Tocantins River region. Anchored in the fieldwork, based on participant observation and ethnographic descriptions, this work brings reflections on the idiolect of this region, where terms such as cousin, relative and friend are used to establish social relations, which can be read by theories of alliance of kinship. Anthropologists, sociologists and linguists sought to present culture as a set of practices and a set of symbols. However, language and the linguistic sign in it have the capacity to be performative in the sense of establishing factual and pragmatic relations. Since kinship is constituted by social relations of descent and / or affiliation of real or fictitious bases, and language (langue and parole), in this case, spoken expressions of their linguistic codes, it is clear that riverine language reveals kinship relations in the Tocantins River region, especially in the Igarapé Acaputeua, establishing a game that expresses itself and is created, among other things, by the terms of kinship.

This article addresses the ways of life of residents of the rural-riverside community of Pirocaba, in Abaetetuba-PA, dealing with culture, knowledge and life built on moving and inhabiting the local environment. For this, we resorted to bibliographical study and field research. As a result of the study, we can say that the researched community is rich in the production of local knowledge as well as its culture is re-signified daily from thinking, acting, doing and inhabiting the rural-riverside geographic space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper considers the dialectic of territorialization at play between the Brazilian state and traditional peoples (ribeirinhos) in Amazonia through Nick Clare, Victoria Habermehl, and Liz Mason-Deese’s (2018) theorization of poder and potencia. The interplay between poder and potencia becomes evident throughout the modern history of Brazilian development initiatives, interventions by capital, and social movements organized by traditional peoples. Territories of poder and potenica in the Brazilian Amazon draw from this history of dialectic territorializations which finds contemporary form in knowledge discourses and resource politics. The poder of the Brazilian state and extractive corporations utilizes both overwhelming scale and personal confrontations to facilitate resource requisitions. The potencia promised by traditional territories—reciprocal socioecologies connected to Amazonian ecosystems—suggests power derived from overlapping territorialities between humans and nonhumans. Through interviews and counter-mapping with the São Francisco community, we demonstrate that the place-based lifeways (“modo da vida”) of the community also sustain prefigurative potential for a territory that exceeds the logics of the state and capital.

This article analyses the displacement of riverine people to the settlements of Novo Engenho Velho and Riacho Azul, in the municipality of Porto Velho-Ro, due to the construction of the Santo Antônio Hydroelectric Power Plant, on the Madeira River. The research was quantitative/descriptive with some qualitative information, based on document analysis, semi-structured interviews, and questionnaires. Three representatives of the plant and 28 families from the settlements comprised the sample. The results show a view of the plant representatives associated with the objectives of the infrastructure development policy in the country. Based on support for new housing and new productive activities, the managers consider that they provided conditions for the displaced riverine people to maintain their family, neighborhood, and socioeconomic structures, although they are aware of the necessary changes in this process. In the perception of the old riverside dwellers, it is a matter of facing the disruption of an organized way of life on the banks of the river, with the consequences of displacement to other places, in which the old family, social and economic conditions do not reproduce and the new conditions present several weaknesses, in particular the prohibitions on fishing, the poor quality of land for agriculture and the poor functioning of health, education and sanitation equipment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In Amazonian floodplains, manioc flour is the main plant food product and source of income for local populations. In the context of climate change, extreme flooding is more frequent and intense, making it difficult to cultivate and process manioc. As local knowledge is dynamic and fundamental to adapt in critical times, we studied local techniques for storing manioc roots, which allow them to be processed later. We conducted semi-structured interviews in three floodplains (várzea) communities (36 families) and three paleo-floodplain (paleovárzea; 1–3 m higher) communities (52 families) in the middle Solimões River basin (Brazil). Residents mention four techniques for storing fresh manioc; two were cited in archaeological or ethnographic studies (burial and basketing), and two were not cited before in the region (bagging and kanaká). In the paleovárzea, where manioc production is more important as a source of income, residents have more knowledge of manioc storage techniques. However, this knowledge also persists in areas where manioc has less importance for income generation. Residents of the study area express demand for disseminating these practices, as they can contribute to adaptation in critical periods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Resumo Qual a contribuição da antropologia para o estudo dos processos de aprendizagem? O artigo destaca os pontos distintivos da abordagem antropológica sobre a aprendizagem, ancorando-se numa etnografia da circulação de saberes e habilidades na região do Baixo Tapajós (Pará). Argumento que estudar a aprendizagem in loco, considerando o contexto social e cultural no qual ela ocorre, traz elementos de compreensão que permanecem inacessíveis de outra maneira. A etnografia apresentada mostra que, além de balizar o que aprendemos (os “conteúdos”), especificidades culturais marcam profundamente as maneiras de aprender e de transmitir (sua forma). Somente levando essas especificidades em conta é possível dar sentido à relação ríspida que se estabelece entre pessoas mais e menos experientes no Tapajós.

O presente artigo é recorte de uma pesquisa de Iniciação Científica realizada com o apoio do CNPq e objetiva apresentar a visão da criança ribeirinha com deficiência sobre si e sobre a comunidade em que reside. Realizou-se pesquisa de campo e utilizou-se a fotografia e a entrevista semiestruturada com oito crianças ribeirinhas com deficiência de até doze anos que são atendidas no Centro de Atendimento Educacional Especializado – CAEE no município de Maracanã (PA). Os resultados revelam que as crianças ribeirinhas com deficiência se percebem diferente das demais; revelam gostar de seus cabelos, olhos, boca; quanto à comunidade, revelam gostar da igreja, de coleguinhas, outras dão ênfase aos igarapés e à pesca.

Buscou-se identificar qual o conceito que crianças de cinco e seis anos de idade, na comunidade de várzea Tapará Grande, da Amazônia paraense, em Santarém, têm sobre o que é ser criança. Participaram 15 crianças, sendo 9 meninas e 6 meninos. Para coleta dos dados foi utilizado o instrumento História pra completar. A análise dos dados realizou-se com uso da técnica do Discurso do Sujeito. Os resultados encontrados para o tema “o que é ser criança” foram analisados por grupo etário. As ideias centrais encontradas no grupo de crianças de 5 anos foram: a) a criança é pequena; b) a criança é legal e obedece aos mais velhos; c) o que a criança faz; d) utiliza-se como referência; e) o que pertence à criança; f) não saber; g) dúvidas. As ideias centrais encontradas para o grupo de 6 anos foram: a) um bebê; b) o que o bebê não faz; c) utiliza-se como referência; d) dúvida; e) afirmativa de saber o que é ser uma criança. Ambos os grupos se utilizaram como referência e trouxeram atividades para explicar o que é uma criança. As crianças de 5 anos narraram de modo mais pessoal, enquanto as crianças de 6 anos afirmaram que uma criança é um bebê e relataram atividades de um bebê. Assim, percebeu-se que os conceitos das crianças traduziram elementos do contexto de desenvolvimento, suas atividades e as relações com a família, com os espaços e pessoas da comunidade. “THE CHILD IS THE SIZE OF ME”: children riverside’s Tapará Grande/PA Abstract We sought to identify what the concept that children of five and six years of age, in the community of várzea Tapará Grande, cover from Amazon, in Santarém, Pará have about what it means to be a child. Participated 15 children, 9 girls and 6 boys. Data collection instrument was used Story to complete. The Data analysis was performed with the use of the technique of the discourse of the subject. The results founded for the topic “what it’s like to be a child” were analyzed by age group. The central ideas founded in the Group of children of 5 years were: a) the child is small; b) the child is cool and obey your elders; c) what the child does; d) uses as reference; e) that belongs to the child; f) don’t know; g) questions. The central ideas found for the Group of 6 years were: a) a baby; b) what the baby does not; c) is used as a reference; (d) doubt; e) affirmative know what being a child. Both groups were used as a reference and brought activities to explain what a child is. The Children of 5 years narrated so more staff, while the children of 6 years stated that a child is a baby and related activities of a baby. Therefore, it was noticed that the concepts of children translated elements of the context of development, yours activities and the relations with the family, with the spaces and people in the community. “EL NIÑO ES EL TAMAÑO DE MÍ”: niños ribereños del Tapará Grande/PA Resumen Se intentó identificar el concepto de lo que los niños de cinco y seis años de edad, en la comunidad de várzea Tapará Grande, dela Amazonia Paraense, en Santarém, Pará tienen sobre lo que significa ser un niño. Participaron 15 niños, 9 niños y 6 niñas. Para la recogida de datos se utilizaron historias para completar. El análisis de datos se realizan con el uso de la técnica del discurso del sujeto. Los resultados para el tema “lo es para ser un niño” se analizaron por grupo de edad. Las ideas centrales que se encuentran en el grupo de niños de 5 años fueron: a) el niño es pequeño; b) el niño es legal y obedecer a sus mayores; c) lo que el niño hace; d) utiliza como referencia; e) que pertenece al niño; f) no sé; g) preguntas. Las ideas centrales que se encontraron para el grupo de 6 años fueron: a) un bebé; b) lo que el bebé no lo hace; c) se utiliza como referencia; (d)); e) afirmativamente saben lo que significa ser un niño. Ambos grupos fueron utilizados como referencia y trae actividades para explicar lo que es un niño. Los niños de 5 años narraron lo más personal, mientras que los niños de 6 años dijo que un niño es un bebé y las actividades de un bebé. Así, se observó que los conceptos de los niños tradujeron los elementos del contexto de desarrollo, sus actividades y relaciones con la familia, con los espacios y personas de la comunidad.

r]Existo! é fruto de um trabalho fotográfico do Coletivo Madeirista durante a enchente do Rio Madeira em 2014, a maior de todas nos cem últimos anos, no qual são registrados o avanço das águas e depois a retomada, por parte da população, de suas próprias casas. No ano de 2015, as imagens da cheia retornaram, não com a mesma intensidade, mas trazendo a mesma problemática. Daí a importância desse [r]Existo! O Coletivo Madeirista, grupo de artistas e pensadores que se reúne desde 2001 para produzir e discutir arte contemporânea, literatura e poesia, está sediado em Porto Velho. Suas publicações, net.art, poesia visual, performances, intervenções urbanas e videoarte refletem sobre o estatuto da arte na sociedade contemporânea.

Esta pesquisa qualitativa de campo, analisa as práticas pedagógicas de professores com crianças ribeirinhas em uma Unidade Educacional Especializada (UEE), enfatizando-se sua estrutura física e os elementos da cultura ribeirinha em seus atendimentos/aula, na cidade de Belém do Pará. Os resultados parciais da pesquisa na UEE mostram projetos e programas voltados aos alunos com deficiência. Os participantes da pesquisa foram os professores especializados que compõem os programas da UEE. Nos resultados, destaca-se que a UEE teve que redefinir seus programas e projetos sob as diretrizes do atendimento educacional especializado (AEE); apesar da reformada, a unidade enfrenta dificuldades no gerenciamento dos recursos escassos e, os atendimentos em itinerância acontecem, quase sempre, em espaços precários; há estudantes com deficiência que não estão em salas regulares e, as atenções ainda estão voltadas para as deficiências em si; há poucos professores que exercem práticas pedagógicas contextualizadas aos alunos e alunas do campo/ribeirinho(a)s.

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]

The article identifies the vulnerabilities to access to water in the high course of the Paraíba River Basin, more precisely, in the respective municipalities of Monteiro, Camalaú, Caraúbas and São Domingos do Cariri. Field research was carried out, the preliminary project of which was submitted to the ethics committee of the Federal University of Campina Grande- UFCG and approved, with the process number: 4,818,352. This is research with observation in locus of descriptive exploratory. Social questionnaires were applied in the municipalities and communities of Monteiro: Riacho Verde (3), Espírito Santo (3), Bredo (3) Pocinhos (1). In the municipality of Camalaú: João Mendes (1) Floresta (4) Cangalha (2) Palmatória (1) Beira Rio (1) Eldorado dos Carajás (1). In the municipality of São Domingos do Cariri: Boqueirão de São Domingos do Cariri (6), Pau Ferro (4). In the municipality of Caraúbas: Retiro (2) and Campos (8). Vulnerabilities in access to water were found in the 4 municipalities of the study. It was found that access to information by the riverside are still quite incipient; most of the communities' riparians use water directly from reservoirs in a way that is still somewhat risky for well-being; there are complaints on the part of the riparians in the environmental physical aspect; complaints from the riparians at the heart of the management for access to water. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Agrobiodiversity is economically, socially, culturally, and ecologically important for resilience of local communities and their agroecosystems. We identified an extreme flood impact on Alpha and Beta agrobiodiversity before, immediately after and two years after the largest flood ever recorded in three different floodplain types along the middle Solimões River in Amazonia. We found that palms and trees, and species native to Brazil, had higher survival rates in all three floodplain types. The low várzea showed the most expressive losses of ethnospecies and manioc Alpha diversity among the floodplain types; ethnospecies original diversities were not recovered even two years after the flood, and manioc had the slowest recovery. Ethnospecies Beta diversity was relatively homogeneous among floodplain types before the flood; after the extreme flood more heterogeneity was observed. These results highlight the vulnerability of local agrobiodiversity in the face of extreme climatic events, which drastically affect local food sovereignty and income sources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objetivou-se apreender as Representações Sociais do envelhecimento para idosos de uma ilha fluvial brasileira. Trata-se de um estudo qualitativo-exploratório com amostra não-probabilística intencional. Utilizou-se questionários sociodemográficos e entrevistas semiestruturadas. Participaram 100 idosos ribeirinhos, pareados por sexo, com idades entre 60-89 anos (M= 70 anos; DP= 7). A partir da Classificação Hierárquica Descendente obtida através do software IRaMuTeQ, destacaram-se seis classes, as quais apresentaram representações sobre a concessão divina de envelhecer, o envelhecimento cronológico e implicações cumulativas, as perdas biopsicossociais, o impacto deste na funcionalidade, e o temor da dependência. Espera-se que o presente estudo contribua para intervenções sobre a o envelhecimento de idosos ribeirinhos e subsidie investigações futuras no campo gerontológico acerca dessa população.

The objective of the research was to survey the use and medicinal applications of mamorana (Pachira aquatica Aublet) by the ribeirinhos (river dwellers) of Baixo Rio São Lourenço, Maiauatá District, Igarapé-Miri municipality, state of Pará. The target audience of the research comprises eleven (11) ribeirinhos who are older in their family nucleus, being from different families, with histories of the use of plants. We recorded nine (9) different types of indications and/or uses of Pachira aquatica Aublet, which is used for ear pain, cholesterol treatment, diabetes, scabies (“curuba”), inflammation and hematoma in the eyes, “overgrown meat” in the eyes, and conjunctivitis, in addition to being used to dye artisanal fishing nets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The use of medicinal plants for curative or preventive purposes originates from population’s ancient times. This research aimed to carry out an ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants used by the riverside population in Ji-Paraná city, in Rondônia. Having the project approved by the Research Ethics Committee, opinion 2,703,795 of 06/10/2018. Data collection were carried out from June to August 2018, using a form containing questions about the popular use of medicinal plants. For data analysis, the International Disease Code (ICD-10) and the Informant Consensus Factor (FCI) We used 44 people were interviewed, twenty-five (57%) of who are female and nineteen (43%) of male, 81 ethnospecies of medicinal plants were cited, through popular use in an empirical way. Of the cited species, the following stand out: Plectranthus barbatus, cited by approximately (27%), twelve of the interviewed, indicated for the digestive system disorder, whereas the species Chenopodium ambrosioides presented (17%), seven of the interviewed, having as main indication infectious and parasitic diseases. We concluded through this study that the traditional use of popular species endemic to the locality is preserved, corroborating with ethnophormacological information found in popular reports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper was to perform a socioenvironmental and economic analysis using techniques of Participatory Rural Diagnosis (DRP) in the riverside community of Bom Jardim, located in the municipality of Barcarena in the state of Pará, through Participatory Rural Diagnostic-DRP methodological techniques. on-site observations and semi-structured interviews. The diagnosis revealed that 60% of the riverside respondents are male, 80% of the residents do not have clean water and about 25% do not perform any treatment in the water used for drinking. Problems such as influenza, diarrhea, vomiting, fever, afflict the population showing the lack of basic sanitation. Therefore, it was identified the great isolation of the communities in relation to the public power, lack of infrastructure and lack of social and productive organization in the area. The DRP technique allowed the team and the riparian to recognize the potentialities and limitations of the whole territory analysis process, to think of rural extension strategies, community interventions, as well as planning activities focused on local development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The text analyzes the phenomenological idea of place applied to the narratives of residents of Sacaí, a riverside community belonging to the municipality of Caracaraí, located on the right bank of the Lower Rio Branco. Based on semi-structured interviews with the residents and bibliographic review, the work focuses on analysis, the perception and geography of the riverine residents about the lived space and its way of life, notions linked to the perspective of humanist-cultural geography. The text is the result of research carried out during two expeditions carried out in the Lower Rio Branco, through the Amazonian Academic Cooperation Program in 2018 and 2019. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to discuss the influence area of Belo Monte dam, in operation since 2016 in the Xingu river, state of Pará. This discussion starts with the analysis of the perspective of riverine people from extractive reserves of Terra do Meio on the impacts to problematize the spatial category that relates, in particular, to the exclusion of these protected areas as affected territories. Using qualitative methods that involve fieldwork, participant observation, ethnography, and semi-structured interviews, this paper highlight the contradictions surrounding the non-recognition of the riverine populations in the context of impacts of Belo Monte dam. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the multiple ways in which people who live along the rivers of the Brazilian Amazon, known as ribeirinhos, experience malaria outside of a clinical setting. It describes the local understanding of malaria, strategies to distinguish the illness from other febrile sicknesses, challenges for detecting the disease through biomedical diagnosis methods, and vicissitudes of having malaria. It draws on cases from ribeirinhos from a peri-urban community of Manaus and a rural community from Careiro, State of Amazonas, Brazil. Although malaria is biomedically characterized by the pathogens causing the disease, ribeirinhos have developed other standards to define malaria, including the intensity of the symptoms, the interval between the infections, and the types of medications dispensed to them. In the riverine communities studied, the etiology of malaria includes mosquitoes, microbes, water, wind, sun, and person-to-person transmission. Symptoms of malaria were found to overlap with other febrile sicknesses; hence, ribeirinhos developed skills to monitor how a malaise unfolds in their bodies. Experiential knowledge plays a key role in the early detection of malaria. Individuals who have no previous experience with malaria were found to spend more time seeking health care. Equally important, ribeirinhos perceive that malaria is part of the landscape they inhabit.

The present work aimed to analyze the importance of the fishermen colony from the city of Babaçulândia (TO) through the investigation of the assignments, which are delegated to them in the fish handling and the representation of the associated Ribeirinhos before the legal entities in the struggles to guarantee their rights. Thus, a number of two hundred associated families were found, which are under the jurisdiction and protection of the colony under debate. The work also contemplated and analyzed the damages caused by the construction of the Estreito Hydroelectric Power Plant in the everyday life of the Ribeirinhos, such as the reduction of fish, the process of deterritorialization and unjust compensation. In order to achieve these objectives, field visitsand interviews with associate members were carried out, as well with the leaders of the colony, totalizing a quantitative of ten interviews, whose purpose was to assimilate the way of organization of that community, and to verify how the Ribeirinhos perceive and feel the problems brought after the construction of the hydroelectric plant in their social, economic, cultural and physical environment.

The text addresses the material culture of the riverside peoples of Marajoara Amazon, it aims to reflect about the relevance of the material dimension to the social life of this group in the Amazonian context. Based on Oral History assumptions, it prioritizes as a source the oral narratives collected through semidirected interviews. Combining empirical data and theoretical basis, with emphasis on the contributions of Hodder (1994); Sarraf-Pacheco (2009); Portelli (2016), it is verified that the material culture in the life dynamics of the riverside people takes different forms and uses. It incorporates symbolic, cosmological and cognitive aspects of paramount importance in the construction of the territory. Oral tradition is, concerning this aspect, a tactic so that the muted voices of these peoples, who do not only coexist with things, but keep stories from them, meanings of their uses and existence, question standardizing discourses oriented by Westernized visions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As reservas extrativistas, um dos legados do movimento organizado dos seringueiros do qual Chico Mendes foi um dos grandes protagonistas, foram idealizadas como proposta de desenvolvimento para Amazônia e para os povos da floresta, alternativa ao modelo estatal hegemônico, de características ambientalmente predatórias e socialmente excludentes. Desde o assassinato de Chico Mendes em 1988 foram criadas 88 reservas extrativistas (sendo 62 federais e 26 estaduais). Três dessas reservas extrativistas federais foram criadas nos anos 2000 na Bacia do Xingu, na região conhecida como Terra do Meio. O presente artigo relata a experiência de organização e gestão dessas reservas, defendendo que o modelo das reservas extrativistas pode realizar os objetivos presentes na idealização de sua proposta pelo movimento de Chico Mendes e demais seringueiros mediante a observação de certas condições, incluídas aí o estabelecimento de parcerias e alianças nos diversos setores da sociedade. Escrevemos da perspectiva de membros do Instituto Socioambiental, organização não governamental parceira e assessora das associações dos moradores das Resex da Terra do Meio, há mais de 25 anos instituição importante em questões socioambientais da Bacia do Xingu. Desse ponto de vista, descreveremos as estratégias que têm sido adotadas pelas famílias e seus parceiros em busca de um desenvolvimento ambientalmente viável e socialmente digno e justo.

Partindo da noção de rede sociotécnica estabelecida na relação entre onças e ribeirinhos em duas Reservas de Desenvolvimento Sustentável no Amazonas, foram identificadas controvérsias entre o saber tradicional e o científico. Quantas onças existem, qual é a agência delas e o que ela provoca nos demais actantes? O que a ciência mede e quantifica a respeito das onças tem sempre correspondência com o que é posto em movimento em termos de política para a conservação? O objetivo deste artigo não é responder a essas questões, e sim evidenciar as controvérsias identificadas nas relações entre a Amazônia rural e a conservação, destacando possibilidades e limites da Teoria Ator-Rede tanto para a compreensão da construção do conhecimento científico como para a política na relação entre onças e populações tradicionais e seus desdobramentos.

RESUMO A utilização de plantas medicinais para o tratamento de doenças tropicais como a malária na Amazônia Central é de suma importância, principalmente em locais onde o sistema único de saúde não se encontra presente como na maioria das comunidades ribeirinhas desta região. Sendo assim, investigar e resgatar o conhecimento popular a respeito de plantas medicinais utilizadas no tratamento de malária e males associados pelos moradores da comunidade Julião situada na Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Tupé, Manaus-AM, torna-se importante no registro de como as populações locais se previnem e tratam essa doença tão prevalente e perigosa na região. O trabalho foi conduzido na forma de oficinas participativas, segregadas por gênero e complementadas com entrevistas semiestruturadas aliadas à técnica da turnê-guiada nos quintais e floresta adjacente à comunidade. Foram calculados os índices de diversidade de Shannon-Wiener, equitabilidade e concordância quanto ao uso principal (CUP). A partir da colaboração efetiva de 13 comunitários foram registradas 62 espécies vegetais pertencentes a 53 gêneros e 34 famílias botânicas que resultaram em índice de diversidade (H’) de 1,62 decits e equitabilidade de 0,9. As famílias mais representativas foram: Fabaceae (7 espécies), Asteraceae e Lamiaceae (4 espécies cada) e Solanaceae e Rutaceae (3 espécies cada). Vale destacar que 16 espécies (25,8%) foram citadas para tratamento de malária e males associados pela primeira vez em estudos etnobotânicos realizados na América Latina.

The quarter of São Tarcísio near river Doce – Governador Valadares, Brazil - is a scenario of a feasible territory where a specific portion of land is loosely associated with a physical soil and some particular humans traits printed culturally. Actually this essay deals with three dimensions at the same time: the River, the quarter and its inhabitants. Having in mind an historical process, a realm of feelings and some categories like imaginary, representations, social codes and identity as the main tools one could get a way in order to reach the process of symbolic production and reproduction of this process of territorialization. The territory is then understood as the product of a scene of feasible territory through the material and symbolic appropriation of a space. This appropriation is deeply linked to the imaginary, to experience, to the mythical, to the day-by-day life and cultural codes.

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