“Entre taquaras, cestos e cultura”: um estudo da vida de mulheres kaingang da terra indígena Rio das Cobras sob a perspectiva da agroecologia - Nova Laranjeiras-PR

Abstract

This dissertation addresses gender issues among traditional peoples from the perspective of agroecology. This is a qualitative research whose general objective is to analyze the lives of Kaingang women from the Rio das Cobras Indigenous Land and their relationship and experience with nature from the studies of the sexual division of labor and the agroecological paradigm. In the methodology, as a data collection instrument, we developed some techniques based on the ethnographic method, whose scientific investigation approach brings important contributions to qualitative research since it is concerned with a holistic analysis of cultures. This method is also known as participant observation. As an integral part of the research on screen, we used the field diary and participant observation, as well as interviews with the interlocutors of this research. The analysis of the empirical data was based on the content analysis that led us to the following results: the relationship of the indigenous in the past with nature was based on respect and reciprocity, and they were strongly linked to the system of beliefs and cosmologies, and the Agroecology is close to this relationship that indigenous people have traditionally established with their surroundings, a relationship interpreted by the interviewees as sacred, materialized mainly in the form of care for nature and respect for its natural cycles. As for the sexual division of labor and agroecology, it was possible to see that there is a differentiation in the roles assumed by men and women, which in everyday practices appear culturally delineated, attributing to women tasks that did not depend on much physical effort, a “lighter work”. ” such as removal of the fine capoeira, planting and harvesting, already the task of men, the work that required greater physical effort, such as preparing the land for planting. Still in relation to these aspects, we observe that the Kaingang culture is a strongly masculine culture, as attributions to male and female roles conform to the patrilineal structure and the exclusion of women from public decision-making spaces.