TRANSFORMAÇÃO DOS ESPAÇOS AGRÍCOLAS E DESLOCAMENTOS ENTRE ESPAÇOS
FENÔMENOS DE MOVIMENTO COMO TECNOLOGIA AGRÍCOLA NA AMAZÔNIA INDÍGENA
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-6524.140518Abstract
Abstract: In the following essay, I propose broadening the meaning of what is considered agriculture. To this end, I have selected among the ethnographic descriptions of Brazilian indigenous ethnology two phenomena that have proven to be fundamental to the creation and maintenance of a set of activities involving humans and plants that I will refer to as Amazonian indigenous agriculture: the transformation of agricultural spaces and the relocation of humans and plants between such spaces. Aware of the diversity of agricultural spaces found in the Amazon - including fields, gardens, trails, fallow lands, “capoeiras”, woods, etc. - I emphasize agricultural practices that involve movement, i.e. activities such as daily walks to the gardens, foraging in the woods or seasonal trips to hunting and gathering camps. Therefore, the main argument of this essay is that the transformation and relocation between spaces of plant cultivation are agricultural phenomena, which inevitably means that the domain of "agricultural" also includes spaces and activities that are not currently understood as agricultural.
KEYWORDS: technology; agriculture; indigenous ethnology; Amazon.
