Estudo sobre a comunidade Ticuna Bom Caminho e sua relação com o Arumã através do uso de ferramentas participativas
This study was conducted in the Ticuna indigenous community called Bom Caminho located at the city of Benjamin Constant (Amazon State), nationally recognized for producing handicrafts. The craft, the main source of income generation in the community, has the support of the Association of Ticuna Arti...
| Autor principal: | Falcão, Rita Dácio |
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| Grau: | Dissertação |
| Idioma: | por |
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Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia - INPA
2020
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https://repositorio.inpa.gov.br/handle/1/12866 http://lattes.cnpq.br/9176750512856415 |
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This study was conducted in the Ticuna indigenous community called Bom Caminho located
at the city of Benjamin Constant (Amazon State), nationally recognized for producing
handicrafts. The craft, the main source of income generation in the community, has the
support of the Association of Ticuna Artisans Women from Bom Caminho - AMATU. The
association was created with the purpose of organizing the production and marketing of
handicrafts which is the strong point of the community, in order to enhance and disseminate
the Ticuna culture and patrimony, as well as the development of projects for community
development. This work aimed to conduct a study on the relationship of Ticuna population
from Bom Caminho with a natural resource called arumã which is a herbaceous plant whose
fibers are used to manufacture various products of Indian handicrafts. Data collection
occurred through participatory tools: Timeline, Seasonal Calendar, Spoken Map of Current
Moment and FOFA matrix (Fortaleza, Opportunity, Weakness and Threats). The community
women have always worked with basketry, but worked in isolation, produced for home use, in
the fields and it was rarely sold. When they could not sell the baskets, those were exchanged
for clothes, household items and food products in nearby towns like Benjamin Constant,
Tabatinga and Leticia, in Colombia. From the creation of AMATU on, the artisans began to
organize and work together, with the support of AMATU they have attended craft training
courses providing the highest quality products and better market acceptance, receiving many
more orders on a large scale. Thus, there was a high increase in handicraft production and
consequently the family income and quality of life of artisans. Therefore, the main raw
material used for making the baskets, the arumã, has come under great pressure. As a
consequence, this natural resource is disappearing nearby community, thus hindering the work
of artisans as the time taken to collect arumã could be spent to develop other activities. Thus,
this very important material to Bom Caminho’s artisans need to be better cared for, so in the
future, it will not disappear harming the main source of economy of the families of this
community. |