Frutos, Sementes e órgãos tuberosos na alimentação da etnia Sateré-Mawé dos rios Marau e Urupadi (Maués-Amazonas).

Abstract

Sateré-Mawé is an indigenous ethnic group belonged to the linguistic trunk Tupi and inhabits the Indigenous Land Andirá-Marau, in the division of Amazonas and Pará states. As other ethnic groups from Brazil and from the world, the Sateré people go by changing on their customs and cultural identity. Researches and studies done with these groups are important to understand the relation between biological and ethnicity diversity, with the aim to register and preserve informations about eatable species, methods and use techniques of vegetable resources, whose results can generate patterns to conservation and proper use of these properties. The cultivation techniques and fruits preparation, seeds and eatable tuberous organs in two communities of the Sateré-Mawé group located in Maués city, Amazonas, were documented through semi-structured interviews and participant observations. The same way, were registered informations related to labor division and to material culture for this activities development. 81 species of alimentary plants were identified, belonging to 37 botanical families and 63 genus. The Sateré-Mawé people practice the itinerant agriculture in indigenous farming and capoeiras, cultivating predominantly manioc varieties. Other spaces used to obtain food are home yards, farms and forest areas, where in this last, they practice extractive activities. Modifications were observed on feed habits of these communities for the proximity to urban centers, where they obtain exogenous food items that do not belong to Sateré-Mawê material culture. Few researches about the Sateré-Mawé ethnobotany are found in literature, being this study an important subsidy to the knowledge of local flora uses.