“…In Brazil, however, the issue of LEK transformations has not yet been addressed despite the significant economic and socio-cultural changes that its rural/local populations have experienced; which include native peoples (GROSS et al, 1979;FORLINE 1997;COIMBRA JR. et al, 2002;PRADO et al, 2012), caboclos (MURRIETA 1998(MURRIETA ,2001BRONDIZIO, 2008;ADAMS et al, 2009), caiçaras (ADAMS, 2000;HANAZAKI and BEGOSSI, 2003;SANCHES, 2004) and quilombolas (PENNA-FIRME and BRONDIZIO, 2007;PENNA-FIRME, 2012;ADAMS et al, 2013).…”