Produção Nacional
Kixiri and the Origin of Day and Night: Ethnoprimatology among the Waimiri Atroari Ameindians of the Central Amazonia, Brazil
2020; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1007/978-3-030-27504-4_10
ISSN2365-7553
AutoresRosélis Remor De Souza-Mazurek, Ana Carla Bruno,
Tópico(s)Plant and animal studies
ResumoPrimate species are an integral part of the lives of many indigenous groups living in Amazonian lowlands. Primates are not only important as food, but they are also present in Amerindian cultural symbolic traits. In this chapter, we describe the cultural uses of primate species as food, including preferences, avoidances, and taboos as well as the role of monkeys in myths and folklore among the Waimiri Atroari Amerindians of the Central Amazonia, Brazil. Three cebid species represented 24.5% of the total vertebrates, and 35% of all individual mammals hunted in a 1-year study. Alouatta macconnelli ranked first followed by Ateles paniscus and Sapajus apella. Alouatta macconnelli and Ateles paniscus are the largest of the 10 monkey species reported for the area. The same species are also subject to temporal use restrictions during postpartum and figure in the songs during Bahinja Maryba male initiation ritual. Primates participate in important myths with multiple symbolic significances for the social and cultural order of the Waimiri Atroari. Saguinus midas was a Kinja (people) in mythical times, but it was transformed into monkey with golden hands as a punishment by a superior being for breaking the sun giving origin to the observed natural astronomical phenomena of day and night.
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