Name: ANDRÉ AZOURY VARGAS
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 22/03/2021
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| PAULO CÉSAR SCARIM | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| CARLO EUGENIO NOGUEIRA | Internal Examiner * |
| CARLOS ALFREDO FERRAZ DE OLIVEIRA | External Alternate * |
| ELAINE DE AZEVEDO | External Examiner * |
| PAULO CÉSAR SCARIM | Advisor * |
| SIMONE RAQUEL BATISTA FERREIRA | External Examiner * |
Summary: This work addresses the relationship between territory and food, taking as a case study of the
Botocudo (Borum) and Tupinikim indigenous community of Areal and Santa Maria, located in
the region of the mouth of the Doce river, in the municipality of Linhares (Espírito Santo -
Brazil). The Traditional Peoples and Communities at the mouth of the Doce river have suffered
impacts resulting from the hegemonic process of capitalist development since the colonial
period. The environment at the mouth of the Doce River is very fragile due to the socioenvironmental impacts suffered over the years, especially the last one, which occurred in 2015,
related to the Samarco disaster (Vale / BHP), which contaminated the Doce River with mining
tailings, due to the rupture of the Fundão dam (Mariana-MG). Based on bibliographic and
documentary review, field activities and interviews, we sought to analyze the processes of
transformation of eating habits in brazilian society and their correlations with the context of the
Areal and Santa Maria community today. The work was theoretically oriented in the
geographical concepts of territory, environment, habitat, gender and way of life, guiding
reflections on food, referenced in the classic authors of modern and contemporary Geography,
as well as in Sociology and History of Food. From the multidisciplinary and multidimensional
reflection around the issue of access and consumption of food, it was possible to understand
the socioeconomic, material and symbolic power relations present in the region of the mouth
of the Doce River. In this way, we sought to problematize how changes in the eating habits of
the local population are linked to complex processes of a global-local nature, which inexorably
affect traditional peoples and communities, especially when more directly affected by the
hegemonic and multiscale dynamics of capitalist production that reverberates in the territory.
Keywords: territory; food; way of life; Indigenous Community of Areal and Santa Maria
