Pescadores de imagens: análise do uso de imagens nas pesquisas do Projeto RENAS por meio da perspectiva da antropologia visual

Abstract

The RENAS Project carries out dozens of studies within the scope of traditional, fishery populations in order to understand and value the knowledge that permeates the sociocultural identity of these groups. During its construction, the Laboratory of Anthropology of Aquatic Media (LAMAq) was founded, which has a vast document collection and the BIP RENAS Image Bank. The objective of this work was to identify the audiovisual production present in the monographs supervised by Dr. Lourdes Furtado that are correlated with fishing anthropology and the images on the Third Phase of the Project present in BIP RENAS, analyzing and correlating with the perspective of visual anthropology on the use of images in ethnographic research. In the monographs, 218 images and 15 attachments were collected, divided into 3 categories: photographs, illustrations/drawings and attachments in the monographs. In the Image Bank, they were classified into a) folder name and b) number of subfolders c) number of photographs and d) number of videos. There were 15 folders, some of them divided into subfolders, totaling 2,582 images and 4 videos. It can be seen that the Project's researchers were concerned with using images for recording: for field verification, for building the project's memory or as a methodology for analyzing instruments and cultures of the researched populations. This work demonstrates an existing dialogue with the use of imagery, which can be deepened with the propagation of the debate on visual anthropology together with the anthropology of fishing, which is extremely necessary to further enhance these ethnographic researches.