The river and the epoch: barranqueiro understandings on water in the disturbed landscape of the São Francisco Valley
This article seeks to expose the entanglement in the mode of inhabitation of the ribeirinhos from the Upper São Francisco Valley, also known as barranqueiros, with the waters and other-than-human beings that comprise the co-built landscape on the riverbanks. The starting point for critically describ...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Horizontes Antropológicos
2023
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | This article seeks to expose the entanglement in the mode of inhabitation of the ribeirinhos from the Upper São Francisco Valley, also known as barranqueiros, with the waters and other-than-human beings that comprise the co-built landscape on the riverbanks. The starting point for critically describing this more-than-human sociality on the banks of the São Francisco River are the entendências [lit. understandings] of the inhabitants of the Ribanceira Community, in the municipality of São Romão, in Minas Gerais, concerning the pluvial and river flows of the waters. Immersed in the cyclical alternation between the time of the waters and the time of the drought, which guide their fishing and farming activities, the barranqueiros of Ribanceira have experienced increasingly less frequent and less intense pluvial flows, while also coexisting with a river that is worryingly not flowing that colours their narratives in disheartening tones regarding the proximity of the epoch or end of times. |
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