The riverside life of women in the Kokama Indigenous Community Sapotal / Tabatinga-AM

• Autor(a) principal: Sanches, Brian Angelo Sandoval
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Aguilar, Elinalda Samias, Ramos, Ana Sávia Farias, Rodrigues, Eubia Andrea, Silva, Reginaldo Conceição da, Billacrês, Máximo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/35005
• topic: Mujeres; Kokama; Comunidad Sapotal; Alto Solimões.; Mulheres; Kokama; Comunidade Sapotal; Alto Solimões.; Women; Kokama; Sapotal community; Alto Solimões.

According to official data from the Brazilian Institute of Statistical Geography, the indigenous population in the nine municipalities comprising the Alto Solimões mesoregion, located in the southwest of the state of Amazonas, reaches a total of 61,901 people. Indigenous knowledge is characterized as a distinctive element of these groups. These groups are also distinguished by maintaining their own forms of social organization, built along a historical path that is unique to them and fostered in relation to the environment from which their life needs come through work. In this article, we dedicate ourselves to the knowledge of women applied to the agriculture of the Kokama indigenous population of the Sapotal Community, located in the municipality of Tabatinga-AM. Since, the multifaceted space of the rural environment comprises multiple regional characteristics diversified in ethnic, religious and generational groups. Added to this diversity, the gender factor and work spaces. In view of this, we took the following questions as guides for the research: what are the practices carried out by Kokama women in the productive activity and in the spatial organization of the Sapotal Community? What is the economic and social function that these practices have for the whole family and community? The research exercise was conducted through the Complexity method, taking the practice of dialogicity as the main form of data production. Finally, it is worth noting that the Kokama women organize themselves with their families to formalize the work process and the activities to be carried out collectively. The objective of the work is, therefore, to approach the different roles played by women.