Os processos de conservação do ecossistema a partir do mito e das lendas em Nova Aliança, Alto Solimões

Abstract

The objective of the study was to understand the relationships between the myth and the work practices of the family agroecosystem in the construction of environmental conservation. From the point of analysis of the practice of environmental conservation of mythic influence, the study took place in Nova Aliança, a community belonging to the municipality of Benjamin Constant, Alto Solimões, Amazonas, Brazil. The research adopted the systemic complexity approach, linked to interactions as being dependent on the triad, interrelationship, system and organization. The method used was the Case Study, which based on the techniques and instruments used the direct observation, the cultural track, the cultural map and the interview with a prior script. The Kokama people of Nova Aliança have their sociocultural representations about creation and environmental conservation processes supported by mythical ancestry. Sociocultural representations of creation are understood by the kokama creation myth. In this perspective, the sociocultural representations about the processes of environmental conservation that focused on the work practices also result from the creation myth. The myth brought the light, the day, to the observation of the ecosystem, which also one of the divine creations must be respected and maintained undamaged by kokama and other peoples. In this way, alimentary security and the work with conservation practices in the construction and maintenance of the family agro-ecosystem complex are representations understood from the kokama creation myth. This enabled a productive system that did not cause damage to the ecosystem, since the mythical imaginary represented and directed to the elaboration of an ethno-know from the experiences constructed along the centuries. In this sense, it was possible to conclude that the productive units of Nova Alianca were constructed and are maintained from the mythical representations present in the kokama imaginary that made possible through the experiments, to elaborate an ethno-know or ethno-knowledge, which, in turn, generated ethnoconservation. Thus, the conservation practices used in agroecosystem work, by the present study, are considered of mythical influence.