Wamon - Revista dos alunos do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social da UFAM

Rotina dos moradores da comunidade do KM 11 na Piracema, Tucuruí/PA

2023-07-26T11:34:05+00:00

This photo essay was carried out in the city of Tucuruí-PA, in the riverside community of Porto do Km11, with the aim of showing how this community reinvents itself in the most difficult period for local fishermen, the piracema.

Relato de experiência sobre as visitas aos territórios de Manaus (AM) pela Missão para Água e Saneamento da Habitat Brasil

2024-08-11T15:43:16+00:00

Este trabalho consiste em um relato de experiência sobre minha participação na missão pelo direito à água e saneamento realizada pela organização Habitat Brasil em territórios de Manaus. No dia 03 de junho de 2024, percorremos 5 territórios - Puraquequara, Colônia Antônio Aleixo, Santa Etelvina, Parque das Tribos e Beco Macapá - para fazer observações in loco e escuta de comunitários sobre violações de direitos envolvendo acesso à água. O resultado dessa atividade consistirá em um relatório e em um conjunto de encaminhamentos às autoridades públicas e à empresa concessionária dos serviços de água e esgoto em Manaus. Na ocasião, representei o Laboratório de Antropologia da Vida, Ecologia e Política (CoLar), tendo em vista a incidência política e impacto social do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social da UFAM em atividades junto à organizações da sociedade civil organizada e movimentos sociais que pensam o direito à cidade e políticas públicas envolvendo a água em Manaus. O relato de experiência também teve como objetivo subsidiar o referido relatório, bem como mapear redes e relações para realização de pesquisas futuras.

A arte queer do fracasso

2024-08-26T13:48:03+00:00

Resenha do livro 'A arte queer do fracasso' de Jack Halberstam.

Movimentos indígenas, relações interétnicas e reflexividade:

2024-07-06T00:12:59+00:00

Maria Helena Ortolan atualmente é professora da Universidade Federal do Amazonas - UFAM e vem desenvolvendo pesquisas em políticas indigenistas, relações interétnicas, política indígena, movimento indígena e etnologia indígena, tendo como foco em seus estudos as áreas de Antropologia Social e Antropologia da Saúde. O motivo dessa entrevista[1] parte da relevância das pesquisas que a antropóloga vem desenvolvendo ao longo de sua carreira sobre o Movimento Indígena no Brasil. Assim, para contribuir com a presente edição, a entrevistada fala sobre a sua trajetória profissional no contexto Amazônico, sobre Antropologia e suas pesquisas relacionadas aos povos indígenas no Brasil. A entrevista foi realizada no dia 19 de setembro de 2022, no Laboratório de Arqueologia (LabArq) – Museu Amazônico, da Universidade Federal do Amazonas, na cidade de Manaus/AM.

Edição completa

2024-11-13T12:14:30+00:00

Editorial

2024-11-12T02:01:53+00:00

Voices of women from the jungle

2023-10-31T17:22:57+00:00

Climate change has caused increasing impacts on nature – including human beings –, in the same time way that happens the advance of globalized capitalism and some of its extensions, such as agribusiness and mining. The ecologies of indigenous peoples act as sources of care and regeneration for Pachamama – mother Earth –, with the cosmology of Good Living (Buen Vivir) as a living example of this practice. This article aims to demonstrate how the voices of jungle women are references in themes related to ecologies and anti-colonial struggles, referring especially to indigenous women belonging to the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA), which brings together members of all confluent countries of the Amazon biome. In this way, anti-colonial ecologies are reinforced and strengthened through these connections between women from different territories, nurturing a multi-territoriality that considers the Amazon as a large maloca, which must be cared for and protected.

Cannabis sativa and its medicinal use

2024-01-18T02:14:37+00:00

Abstract: This article analyzes the medicinal use of cannabis sativa and its advances in Brazil, as well as exploring historical, scientific and legal aspects regarding the topic. The relationship between cannabis sativa and its compounds and medicine is analyzed based on bibliographical research, which allows us to point out strong trends in the pharmaceutical market and the State regarding the use and cultivation of marijuana as a sustainable method of medical treatment. Based on the theoretical assumption of good living, which defends harmonious coexistence with nature, as well as the development of sustainable societies, we understand that empirical cultural knowledge about cannabis for medicinal purposes must be maintained and preserved, mainly because it is a sustainable and effective method that allows improvements in the treatment and cure of various diseases such as AIDS, Epilepsy and Cancer. This statement is confirmed through significant results of scientific research.

Dialogues with soil in agroecological transition:

2024-07-08T20:27:03+00:00

This work is based on a case study carried out with a family that lives on a farm in Pernambuco and has been implementing agroecology for a decade. The field research took place between 2019 and 2021, using participant observation and unstructured interviews. The family reports that, during the acquisition of the farm, neighbors and relatives were opposed, arguing that the soil was unproductive and dry. Thus, the family sought strategies that could transform that environment. With this scenario, we propose to discuss relationships between humans and soil in the agroecological transition in sertão. From the reports, it is clear that agroecological management requires more than cultivation practices; it also involves a change in the view of the soil, which is now understood as a living, dynamic being that dialogues with space. Humans see themselves as having a mission to take care of the soil, which would also take care of them. Some obstacles may arise in this relationship, such as the fact that time passes differently for humans and for soil. However, it is considered that the transition has been successful in changing the perspective from a utilitarian view of the land, to a conception of building shared life.

THE SLAVERY CRIME MANUFACTURES THE COLONIAL CYCLONE

2024-01-29T20:37:24+00:00

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are among the regions most susceptible to climate change. To understand the true impacts of the global upheaval, there is an argument for the need to look beyond traditional indicators. In this sense, the bodies that are displaced on the periphery of the climate crisis play a central role. This study is proposed with a theoretical perspective that intersects ecology and decoloniality, allowing us to politically understand the ecological catastrophe. This is because, faced with a globalizing modern environmentalism and the colonial way of inhabiting, a portion of the world's population is positioned outside the world, and the violence to which they are subjected is treated as fatalities. Understanding that the abolition of slavery did not break with the colonial habitat and that modern environmentalism lacks an anti-racist and anti-colonial struggle, an analysis is carried out on the treatment given to these aspects in important and recent documents on environmental issues: the 27th Conference of the Parties Report and the State of the Climate in LAC Report (2022), in addition to statistical data provided by the Global Internal Displacement Report (2023). From the reflections proposed in this research, the urgency of constructing a change in international ecological policy is perceived, capable of breaking with the homogenization of traditional environmentalism, which feeds into (neo)malthusian and geopower dynamics.

From the ruins to the cures

2024-08-13T14:00:44+00:00

The present work is developed in the Taquaritíua Territory, with the Akroá-gamella people, indigenous Jê who populate the region of the Baixada Maranhense in the state of Maranhão. The Akroá-Gamella people mark their presence in the state of Maranhão since 1713 and in the current territory since 1749, but after long centuries of invasions, land grabbing and land fraud, the extension they had of 14,000 hectares decreased significantly their traditional territory, and today occupy only 530 hectares. After years of a moment that describe as the phase that "lived under the stone laid by the state", in 2010 resumed collective articulations and from that year held public assemblies of self-declaration and began the recoveries of areas that were in possession of non-indigenous. The spaces that suffered from the devastating interference of farmers and entrepreneurs are marked by the healing of the land, much of the old farms are being consumed by plants, any image that resembles that space with former farmer is being destroyed, They enter in ruins and assume characteristic of the true owners of the landscapes, the enchanted beings. In this process the relationships with plants are marked, because they constantly relate the permanence of plants in some spaces with the healing of this land was affected and disenchanted. The resurgence of native forest, herbs and flowers that have never been planted in some ponds, such as the space that is recovering from these interferences.

Inheritance, heredity and intermarriage among cousins in Cariri Paraiba:

2023-05-02T00:31:16+00:00

In genetics, much is said about the "Founder Effect", as the emergence of a high number of cases of a disease in a particular region, city, town. In this regard, Cariri Paraibano has revealed itself as a region that registers cases of Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS), since 2005, but there are cases reported by the interlocutors from long before that recorded, attributed to marriage between cousins by the discourse of biomedicine. It is a disease of genetic origin, received from parents and with low incidence in different countries, thus considered a rare disease. Instigated by this discourse, we started to question what were the perceptions of families with people with MPS about the notion of inheritance or heredity of the disease and the understanding of kinship relations in cases identified by genetics. The fieldwork was carried out in two expeditions (two stages), so called because it was characterized by an immersion in the cities of Cariri Paraibano, when we traveled through 11 municipalities and interviewed 16 families. In these two moments, we carried out ethnographic interviews and, being the second expedition the moment in which I completed the genealogies of some families that participated in the first expedition, which allowed me to meet new cases of the disease indicated by the families already interviewed. With the expeditions carried out, it was analyzed that the inheritance of Mucopolysaccharidoses for the families is something that is directly linked to their life story, and that can be perceived in the discourse from the relationships that "are in the blood" that mediate in a certain way the notion of who is family from the individuals who have a blood proximity. Inheritance is also triggered by kinship when the geneticist points out, from the heredogram, the relationship between members of the same family, but this notion is guided by the interlocutors' understanding of who is a cousin or not, or who is a "distant" and "close" cousin. Locality plays its role in the representation of heritage when part of the interlocutors descend from the same places, places, thus having the same origin. These places today have formed towns based on these few families, thus allowing the relationship between people from their daily lives. Finally, one speaker calls attention to the construction of genetic risk, and how this inheritance can also be perceived as a risk of transmission to future generations, an element not perceived by most of the group. So the inheritance of Mucopolysaccharidoses is made up of different perspectives based on what was lived by the families, and can also be understood as an inheritance from local experience and heredity from a biological perspective that is yet to come in future generations.

Os warao no tapanã e os arranjos sócio-organizacionais em contexto de deslocamento

2024-07-06T14:35:00+00:00

This article is the result of research conducted with the Warao ethnic group at the municipal shelter in Belém, located in the Tapanã neighborhood, focusing on the group led by Aidamo Valentin Perez. The objective is to understand the socio-organizational arrangements that constitute the identity and cultural baggage of the Warao Amerindians in the context of displacement through the Amazon. Methodologically, this study is based on ethnographic data collected over two years through research conducted as part of a master's program in the Graduate Program in Religious Sciences (PPGCR) at the State University of Pará (UEPA), which includes interviews and analyses of memories and experiences lived by the Warao throughout their process of settling in the Pará Amazon. The article contextualizes the research field, presents the collected data and interpretations, preceding discussions on religiosity, Warao knowledge, health, and (de)territorialization in Belém, Pará.

Mandjuandadi: o tecido sociocultural e político de mulheres em Guiné-Bissau

2023-09-27T18:22:01+00:00

Este artigo resulta de uma comunicação3 realizada durante uma das atividades organizadas pela Associação dos Estudantes Guineenses da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, no contexto das celebrações dos cinquenta anos de independência da Guiné-Bissau. O objetivo é descrever, com base em vivências, experiências e dados etnográficos coletados entre agosto e dezembro de 2018, no âmbito de uma pesquisa de mestrado, no Programa Associado de Pós-graduação em Antropologia UFC-UNILAB, realizada em Canchungo e Bissau, Guiné-Bissau, o impacto dos grupos de Mandjuandadi na vida sociocultural e política das mulheres em coletivos. As Mandjuandadis desempenham um papel importante na promoção da solidariedade comunitária, na transmissão intergeracional de tradições e ensinamentos culturais, assim como na organização social das tabancas (aldeias), estabelecendo hierarquias e papéis sociais de mulheres. A pesquisa evidencia a importância dessas práticas para a coesão social e a preservação da identidade sociocultural das comunidades e bairros envolvidos

Apresentação do dossiê

2024-11-12T02:14:23+00:00