For a geography of traditional communities: participatory methodologies for the understanding of etnosols in Colony Z-29, Jaramataia-Alagoas / Por uma geografia das comunidades tradicionais: metodologias participativas para a compreensão dos etnosolos na Colônia Z-29, Jaramataia-Alagoas

• Main Authors: Jackson Belo Pereira, Matteus Freitas de Oliveira, José Lucas Nunes de Farias
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Estadual de Alagoas 2020-01-01
• Series: Diversitas Journal
• Subjects: knowledge and practice; identification keys; observant participation; geoetnography; conversation wheels
• Online Access: https://periodicos.ifal.edu.br/diversitas_journal/article/view/1010

This article aims to discuss the importance of using participatory methodologies in research related to traditional communities. Brazil has innumerable cultural expressions, and for this reason indigenous communities, quilombolas, peasants, fishing, among others, maintain unique sociospatial relations in their territories. Traditional hegemonic science has long made research questions invisible through cold and partial written methodologies that did not reach the identity territory of these communities. It starts from the experience of researches carried out in Colony Z-29, in São Pedro Village, in Jaramataia, Alagoas, to understand how ancient knowledge and practices are used to classify, by means of identification keys, different types of soils and their characteristics. Uses. From the observant participation, conversation wheels were held that were potentiated with the use of the mystical technique, seeking to know the fishing cosmologies in relation to the soils recorded in a field diary of the geoethnographic method. It is noteworthy that the ethnopedological approach not only served to classify soils based on traditional knowledge, but reflected the identity, collectivity and ancestry of a people who need another academic writing as potent as their orality