Abstract

SILVADA DA COSTA, Marcilene. Prácticas alimenticias en una comunidadad quilombola de la Amazonia brasileña. Rev. pueblos front. digit. [online]. 2012, vol.7, n.14, pp.177-203. ISSN 1870-4115.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cimsur.18704115e.2012.14.103.

This is a work on the inhabitants of a community feeding practices quilombola (descendants of runaway slaves) of the Brazilian Amazon. The residents of this community, supported by a local community association, claimed possession of the land on which they live, defending the fact of being descendants of the ancient inhabitants of the quilombos (runaway slave dwellings), in accordance with article 68 of the 1988 Brazilian Federal Constitution. The land where they live are areas surrounded by cattle farms belonging to large landowners and influential men in the political life of the region. This means that the quilombolas have a space for family agriculture, former base of their economic activities, which means that many of them need to abandon these agricultural practices to work on neighbouring farms or cities. Generally, men as pawns and the woman in domestic service. The result is a reduction in the proportion of foods produced locally, that causes a change in the style of life and consumption of foods, which increasingly are purchased in the market; changes are made, thus in the representations and the daily feeding practices.

Keywords : Brazilian Amazon; Quilombola communities; feeding practices; food.