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Academia Brasileira de Ciências
2006
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- "Cricket singing means rain": semiotic meaning of insects in the district of Pedra Branca, Bahia State, northeastern Brazil Eraldo M. Costa Multidisciplinaria (Ciencias Naturales y Exactas) bioindicator folk knowledge ethnoentomology semiotic meaning This paper deals with the semiotic meanings which are given both to the appearance and/or behavior of insectspecies according to the ethnoentomological knowledge of the inhabitants of the village of Pedra Branca,Bahia State, Brazil. Data were collected from February to May 2001 by performing open-ended, recordedinterviews with nine men and twenty-five women, whose ages ranged from 19 to 82 years old. Data wereanalyzed by using the union model, which involves considering all available information on the surveyedsubject. Twelve kinds of insects were associated with both beneficial and harmful events, as well as with theindication of changing weather. The way local people perceive and interpret the appearance and/or behaviorof certain species of insects depends on the cultural background of each inhabitant. The following semioticmeanings were recorded: fatal, funereal, auspicial, meteorological, societal, monetary, and of abundance orscarcity. The beliefs in the augural power of insects in the village of Pedra Branca are deep-rooted in thelocal tradition and are transmitted from generation to generation through oral culture. It is hoped that the datanow available will be incorporated into a curriculum by those researchers interested in insect conservationand ethnobiology as well. 2006 artículo científico 0001-3765 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=32778107 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=327 Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências application/pdf Academia Brasileira de Ciências Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências (Brasil) Num.1 Vol.78