Terra de encantados respeite sua morada! Um estudo sobre cosmologia e ecologia de comunidade próximas a Santarém do Pará

Abstract

This monograph proposes to study the relations between Ecology and Cosmology in some communities near the city of Santarém do Pará, based on the anthropological critique of the Nature and Culture dichotomy, since such notions are limited to explain the studied reality, since here the "natural" places, such as forests, rivers, springs, show themselves as social, presenting themselves as dwellings of enchanted beings that affect in several aspects the social life of the communities, among them, in agriculture, fishing, hunting and maternity . Such beings are ambivalent, they can sometimes help or hurt the villagers. There exists for this a series of rules of coexistence, that perhaps they are transgressed it is left to the pajé to seek agreements between humans and enchanted ones to establish the harmony.