The weave of kinship and the ever-mobile fishing village of Barra de Ararapira (Superagüi Island, Guaraqueçaba, Paraná, Brazil)

Abstract

In Barra de Ararapira fisherman village, kinship operates as a language that allows to realize, think, express and organize a space in constant transformation. The village is undergoing a process of natural erosion, because of this, its residents have been transferring, secularly, residence areas and fishing routes. This natural situation resulted in an own territorial law,

Tidal inlet migration and formation: the case of the Ararapira inlet - Brazil

“…The inlet widening happened probably due to the formation of another channel through breaching the sand spit that forms the inlet margin. The constant southward migration (updrift) process of the Ararapira Inlet has already been analyzed and discussed in several studies (Tessler, 1988;Angulo, 1993;Tessler and Mahiques, 1993;Angulo, 1999;Mihaly and Angulo, 2002;Muller, 2007;Angulo et al, 2009;Muller, 2010;Bazzo, 2011). According to Angulo (1993), the concave form of the southern margin supports erosive processes governed by ebb currents in a similar process of river meanders.…”