Uma civilização do arroz: agricultura, comércio e subsistência no Vale do Ribeira (1800-1880)

Valentin, Agnaldo

doi:10.11606/t.8.2006.tde-04072007-120321

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“…The formation of these rural communities in the first half of the 19th century coincided with the accelerated production and trade of rice throughout Ribeira Valley [31]. This period appears to have had a decisive influence on the agricultural practices and local and regional trade relations experienced by these populations during the early decades of the 20th century [30].…”

Section: Ribeira Valley and Its Quilombola Communitiesmentioning

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Ethnography, ethnobiology and natural history: narratives on hunting and ecology of mammals among quilombolas from Southeast Brazil

Prado

Silva

Schlindwein

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J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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Background: As a leading practice of Homo sapiens' environmental experience for hundreds of millennia, hunting continues to evoke key research inquiries in the fields of archaeology, human ecology, and conservation biology. Broadly speaking, hunting has been mainly a subject of qualitative-symbolic and quantitative-materialistic schemata of analyze, among anthropologists and biologists, respectively. However, the phenomenological dimension of the hunting experience, in the course of individuals`everyday life, received little academic attention until this century. This study analyzes the daily praxis of hunting among quilombolas (descendants from runaway African slaves) in Southeast Brazil, making use of an ethnographic approach of phenomenological orientation, which dialogue with central ethnobiological issues. The authors also report the local ecological knowledge about mammals hunted in the area, and its relationship to the scientific literature on this subject.Methods: Between 2016 and 2019, the authors made use of participant observation and informal interviews among eight key local participants, in three quilombola communities in the Ribeira Valley (São Paulo, Brazil). Fragments of authors' field notes and parts of interviewers' speeches make up the core results obtained.Results: Articulating local knowledge to scientific literature, this study yielded a hybrid and comprehensive narrative about natural history of the mammals in the area. The authors also accessed elementary aspects of research participants' experience in hunting, such as strategies, tactics, motivations, and feelings. They reveal a set of human behavior dispositions that seems to emerge only in the context of the action, modulating the praxis of hunting on the course of individuals' everyday life.Conclusion: Ethnography, ethnobiology, and natural sciences backgrounds were systematically articulated in this research. This made possible to get a contextualized and multifaceted understanding of hunting praxis in the Ribeira Valley, an important socioenvironmental context of Atlantic Forest in Brazil. The role of an ethnographic approach applied to ethnoecological and biological conservation issues is especially considered here.

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Section: Ribeira Valley and Its Quilombola Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ethnography, ethnobiology and natural history: narratives on hunting and ecology of mammals among quilombolas from Southeast Brazil

Prado

Silva

Schlindwein

et al. 2020

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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“…We showed that Afro-Brazilian smallholders have been subjected to contradictory programs and policies that either restrain traditional practices or aim at empowering these communities. In the nineteenth century, the Afro-Brazilians lived in rural communities with little external interference in their livelihoods and were able to craft their own norms (although some scholars have argued that they were already involved in the production of market-oriented rice; Munari 2010;Valentin 2006). Land disputes led to changes in forms of appropriation from informal collective to formal private and fi nally to formal collective ownership.…”

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“…Rice was brought to the Ribeira region in the mid-eighteenth century to supply the Portuguese royal family, which had moved to Rio de Janeiro (1808-1820; Valentin 2006). For this reason, rice production became the most important crop in the agricultural system of these former slaves in the nineteenth century, losing its role in the 1890s.…”

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The Afro-Brazilian Collective Land: Analyzing Institutional Changes in the Past Two Hundred Years

Futemma¹,

Munari²,

Adams³

2015

Latin American Research Review

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2 The creation of the Afro-Brazilian ter-The fi rst author gratefully acknowledges the support of the FAPESP for research funds (no. 07/53308-1). We thank the State University of Campinas and the University of São Paulo for their academic support. We owe gratitude to all people from the quilombola communities in the Ribeira Valley (state of São Paulo) and all other key informants for making the collection of data possible. The authors assume full responsibility for the content presented in this study.1. Throughout this article, the terms Afro-Brazilian and quilombola are used interchangeably. 2. Quilombos refers to places where escaped slaves joined together in resistance to slavery (Gama 2005). "Traditional population" has become an omnibus or umbrella category in Brazil for a number of social groups, such as Amerindians and quilombolas. Despite being characterized by culturally and THE AFRO-BRAZILIAN COLLECTIVE LAND 27 ritories was an attempt to guarantee rights of access and land use for the descendants of African slaves who were brought to Brazil between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries; it is considered a compensation policy (Schmitt, Turatti, and Carvalho 2002). As a result, over the past twenty years, more than 114 quilombola territories in many states in Brazil have received collective land titles (7.3 percent of the 1,561 Afro-Brazilian communities in those states).3

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“…Assim, o baixo desenvolvimento econômico e industrial da região está associado às suas condições geográficas. (Paes, 2007;Valentin, 2006). Para lá migraram descendentes de europeus em busca de ouro de aluvião e grandes contingentes de escravos negros e índios (ITESP, 2003).…”

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Ecologia Política da comida e nutrição em duas comunidades quilombolas do Vale do Ribeira (Estado de São Paulo, Brasil)

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Uma civilização do arroz: agricultura, comércio e subsistência no Vale do Ribeira (1800-1880)

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Ethnography, ethnobiology and natural history: narratives on hunting and ecology of mammals among quilombolas from Southeast Brazil

Ethnography, ethnobiology and natural history: narratives on hunting and ecology of mammals among quilombolas from Southeast Brazil

The Afro-Brazilian Collective Land: Analyzing Institutional Changes in the Past Two Hundred Years

Ecologia Política da comida e nutrição em duas comunidades quilombolas do Vale do Ribeira (Estado de São Paulo, Brasil)

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