Agricultural practices and local knowledge of the Potiguara’s people from Paraíba: spaces and food production from mandioca
Potiguara; mandioca; Casa de Farinha; alimentation; land
With the object to reflect about Potiguara’s people from Paraíba alimentation and their handlings towards agriculture, this present research intends to describe how are the chosing process for habitation, farm and the composition from these spaces. Further more, this research still prioritize mandioca’s consumption, between mandioca mansa and mandioca brava, through their derivatives as food that gives streight and are consireded “real food”. Therefore, this research intentes to identify mandioca’s the social role in domestic organization, in ecological relationships, in comoslogical relations and even in moral and political from Potiguara’s people from Paraíba. So, this work invests towards the description through indigenous narratives in their organizations to cultive their farms, their knowledge transmissions and focusing in: why the mandioca is part of farms compositions and still is in people’s table as a fundamental food and how through this cultivation it’s still possible to accomplish the maintaince of social spaces in their villages as rivers and casas de farinha.