Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: FRANCISCO MANOEL DE ASSIS FILHO

ECOLOGY, ECONOMY, ART AND FAITH: SOCIO-TECHNICAL NETWORKS AROUND CAROÁ AND THE PRODUCTION OF SEEDLINGS IN THE STRENGTHENING OF PANKARARU INDIGENOUS TERRITORIALITY

Pankararu Territory; Caroá; Power Plant; Indigenous Crafts; Degraded areas.

This work aims to understand the phenomenology around the caroá (Neoglaziovia variegata (Arruda) Mez) as a “power plant” for the Pankararu Indigenous People, as well as the description, interpretation and registration of the sociotechnical networks around it, in addition to the concern to recover the local population of caroá, from the production of seedlings, in the Pankararu indigenous territory, considering that in recent decades, due to climatic factors and the lack of rational management in its removal for fiber extraction, it has caused the scarcity of this species in the region. It is worth noting that, in addition to its importance for the Caatinga biome, caroá is one of the main sources of raw material for Pankararu indigenous crafts, especially in the face of the manufacture of the Praiás clothing, which are deities of faith present in the cosmology of this group. ethnic. The Pankararu territory is located between the Pernambuco municipalities of Petrolândia, Jatobá and Tacaratu, so that their lands were approved in 1987 and 2006, corresponding to 14,294 hectares. We emphasize that the present work arises as a problem observed by the author as belonging to the Pankararu ethnic group, as well as a rural extensionist working in the office of the Agronomic Institute of Pernambuco (IPA) in Petrolândia serving the Pankararu Villages of Brejinho da Serra, Serra Vermelha and Entre Serras. (Piancó, Vila Nova, Salão, Barriguda, Lagoinha, Mundo Novo and Logradouro), providing Technical Assistance and Rural Extension (ATER), strengthening extractivism activities, family and traditional agriculture in Pankararu, preservation of ecosystems and production of indigenous handicrafts, effectively, advocated in the National Policy for Technical Assistance and Rural Extension (PNATER). In this sense, the data will be obtained and analyzed in a qualitative-quantitative way. It is hoped, through this research, to revert to the problem of scarcity of caroá inherent in the territory of the Pankararu ethnicity, in addition to that, with the present study, we seek to develop technical products, which make it possible to strengthen the know-how of these populations.