Food consumption of a Caiçara community from Bonete Beach, Ilhabela, São Paulo / Consumo alimentar na comunidade caiçara da Praia do Bonete, Ilhabela, São Paulo

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

This study presents an analysis of the food consumption of a ?caiçara? community from Bonete Beach, located in the south extremity of São Sebastião Island (São Paulo, Brazil). The main objective is to investigate the influence of recent economic and environmental changes have influenced on the population. The parameter used for evaluation was the food habit (consumption, taboos and preferences), which supplies an indicative of life quality and indicates the relation of the population with its social-cultural and biological environment. The first chapter presents a description of the historical occupation of the Atlantic Forest region and, more specifically, the occupation of São Sebastião Island region. This chapter also presents a social-economic characterization of the Bonete Beach population. Considering the importance of the processes of choice on the determination of the food consumption, the second chapter presents an analysis of ranking of preferences and aversion and animal protein taboos. Finally, in the third chapter, the influences of economic-environmental factors, like the increasing tourism and creation of the State Park of Ilhabela, on the population food habit was studied. The data were collected between July of 2003 and June of 2004, through structured interviews with the heads of 20 households. Results show that these environmental, social and economics changes have not occurred brusquely neither homogeneously for the whole population, resulting in a scene with different households, including social-economic characteristics and food habit among households. Food preferences and food taboos follow patterns identified for other ?caiçara? populations, but present local peculiarities, such as the taboo for meats from hunting, as a consequence of the environmental legislation. In relation to diet, results had indicated an increase on the diversity of items consumed and a loss of alimentary self-sufficiency. This loss may reflect negatively in the whole community, as it increases the extra-local food dependence, diminishes the alimentary security of the families and the local knowledge on the environment, which may result in loss of the social-ecological system resilience

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ecologia humana diet mata atlantica (brazil) mata atlantica human ecology dietas

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