Cruzando ecologias com os caçadores do Rio Cuieiras: saberes e estratégias de caça no Baixo Rio Negro, Amazonas.

Abstract

This work objectified identify and describe the ecological knowledge and strategies of hunters. The fieldwork was realized in the region of the Cuieiras River, tributary of the Negro River, near the city of Manaus. In this location inhabit traditional peoples of diverse origins that work in the extractivism, hunting, fish, agriculture, tourism and the handcraft. The area is part of the Ecological Corridor of the Central Amazon, largest area of continuous protect áreas in the world. 19 hunters were chosen as local consultants. The method involves interviews, memories of hunting and participants observation techniques. The consultants capture 49 species of cinegentic animals and have one contextual etnobiological classification. The spatial heterogeneity is classified in vertically and horizontally ecozonas and the temporal labels are based on environmental variation. The hunters have a profound ethologic knowledge of each animal. For these hunters animals are not only natural resources, there is a symbolic relationship where highlights the presence of curupira. The hunting activities was linked to other productive activities such as fishing, agriculture and forest extrativism, besides being composed of multiple strategies involving a diversity in the composition of the fauna used, the variation of the techniques and the spaces of hunting.