“O PIRARUCU É PEIXE FINO E MILINDROSO, E TAMBÉM ENSINA SEUS FILHOS A PESCAR!”
TRADIÇÕES E EXPERIÊNCIAS SENSORIAIS NA PESCA DE PIRARUCU NA AMAZÔNIA (PRAINHA-PA)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-6524.124712Abstract
Pirarucu fishing (Arapaima gigas) requires complexity of knowledge and techniques, and body skill for success in catching the animal. In addition, in the Ipiranga community (Prainha-PA), there is a repertoire of symbolic protection measures to prevent or cure panemice - a category referring to episodes of failure in fishing. In this text, we will address the traditions of transmitting techniques in fisheries and processes of protection and cure against panemice, in addition to their main causes. In these processes are undertaken technical guidelines in the observation and practical experience so that young people train the “ways” to sensitively perceive the animal, locate and capture it, divergent from the western technical universe. Inspired by native cosmologies, we argue that the pirarucu also invest in feeding techniques so that their young learn to fish their prey. Finally, our research discusses the role of techniques in local morality among fishermen of Ipiranga, having as theoretical foundation the proposition of Marcel Mauss who considers the technique as an effective traditional act that does not differ from the magical act, religious and symbolic.
