Contribuições teóricas sobre quintais: memória (Bio)cultural, vinculação afetiva e qualidade de vida

Abstract

The homegardens are complex systems of production of food inputs, spread along the regions of tropical and subtropical climate, in which there are specific ways of life that resist the amnesia biocultural of the modernity and preserve his traditional knowledge system. Also they detain a potential great one as half a promoter of the improvement in the capacity of life of his users and neighborhood, be in the field or in the city, that it lacks for scientific inquiries. In this form, this dissertation aimed to investigate the theoretical bases made a list to the complexity of these agroecossistemas and the relation, the mechanisms of perpetuation of the knowledge on homegardens and the quality of life and subjective well-being. The research has found a cultural intrinsic relation between memories and biocultural, the subjective well-being and quality of life, which makes possible to identify the elements that practise influence on the subject and on his way of life. In homegardens agroecosystems there is still a lack of studies on ethnoecology, place attachment and quality of life. It is worth detaching the knowledge accumulation, from the first decade of the century XXI, mainly in the area of sciences of plants. However, one is still the need for invest in scientific inquiries that adopt integrated and interdisciplinary approaches, aiming at the proposition of public policies to the development of the cities and improvement of the conditions of life of the population from this production system.