Transformação e movimento: experiências ameríndias de habitar a floresta

Abstract

This study aims to work with some ways of inhabiting the forests that certain Amerindian groups in the Amazon region, nationally and internationally, have developed. This process of inhabiting involves a thematic axis that prioritizes movement as a catalyst for transformations made both in people and in environments. Starting from a bibliographic research, we explore some possibilities of human interactions with the environment. As we will see, this interaction has developed, through a historic housing process, a relationship with the existing biodiversity in their living places. Working with ethnographic data from four specific indigenous realities, which are the Huaorani, Awá-Guajá, Nukak and Hupd'äh, which were highlighted due to the social importance they give to the movement, we built an argumentative logic that seeks to understand how the trekking act is linked to a process of transformation of the environment. Last but not the least is the rich debate that we rehearsed with other fields of human knowledge, archaeological data and the product of genetic discoveries are applied here in order to develop and propose a historical basis in our arguments.