Consumo alimentar doméstico em populações caboclas assentadas em três diferentes ambientes amazônicos: uma análise comparativa / Household food consumption in Caboclo populations settled in three different Amazonian environments: a comparative analysis

AUTOR(ES)

Maissa Salah Bakri

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

The Amazon has been the scene of numerous discussions about the environment´s role in the structuring of human societies. Until recently, in the majority of the discussions about the nature of the environmental constraints in the Amazon, the choice of single limiting factors has been a constant. In these discussions, the Caboclo societies are very important, since they are the most numerous segment of the Amazonian population. Faced with a scenario of increasing global changes in dietary patterns, a deeper knowledge on the food intake of these populations, still in its infancy, is of natural relevance. Thus, this study presents a comparison of food consumption patterns of households settled in different Amazonian environments: the Estuarine Floodplain (Marajo Island, muncipality of Ponta de Pedras-PA), the Seasonal Floodplain (Ituqui Island, municipality of Santarem-PA), and the Upland Forest (FLONA Caxiuana, municipalities of Melgaco and Portel-PA). The main objective was to determine and compare the food consumption patterns of households, especially with regard to calories and proteins, and to understand how the households are structured and distributed in relation to their environment. The method used to collect data was the 24-hour food-recall. The conclusions of this study were: (1) there are significant differences in consumption patterns between the different environments, (2) the patterns found in the diferent Floodplains environment don´t show greater similarity (3) the households of the communities of Upland do not appear to have a lower consumption of food, calories, or protein in comparison to other environments, (4) there seems to be the formation of a large group of households that include both the Estuarine Floodplain and the Upland Forest, environments with a wider variety of foods, and another group with the households of the Seasonal Floodplain (5) the households are not distributed according to the basin in which they are settled. Thus, the explanatory power of this model finds himself committed, at least when it comes to environments, such as the majority of those found in the Amazon region, that find themselves in intermediate positions in an environmental gradient, not matching the Floodplain or Upland prototype usually portrayed in the literature.

ASSUNTO(S)

food habits seasonal and estuarine floodplain ecologia humana rain forest human ecology várzea estacional e estuarina caboclo populations amazônia antropologia biológica hábitos alimentares populações caboclas floresta tropical amazonia biological anthropology

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