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| contents | The ethnocategory "insect" in the conception of the inhabitants of Tapera County, São Gonçalo dos Campos, Bahia, Brazil Henrique F. Magalhães Eraldo Medeiros Costa Multidisciplinaria (Ciencias Naturales y Exactas) insects perception ethnoentomology traditional knowledge This article deals with the construction of the insect ethnozoological dominium by the inhabitants of Tapera County,which is located in the municipality of São Gonçalo dos Campos, Bahia State. Data were obtained from March toMay 2005 through open-ended interviews carried out with 23 men and 8 women, whose ages ranged from 6 to 66years old. Interviewees were asked about how they perceived and defined the animals considered as insects, whichtypes they knew, and if they used them as food resource. Most of the interviews were tape-recorded, and semi-literaltranscriptions are kept at the Ethnobiology Laboratoty of the Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana. Consideringthe ethnozoological classification system of the inhabitants of Tapera, the term insect is a broad semantic categorythat brings together animals of different and not systematically related taxonomic groups. Apparently, these animalsare culturally perceived and categorized as insects because they are usually considered as noxious, disgusting, anddisease carrier creatures. True insects can be excluded from this ethnocategory due to the perception people have thatsuch animals do not cause injuries or because they are useful. Perceptions toward these animals imply ambiguousbehavior and feelings, which range from more positive attitudes (conservative) to more negative (destructive) 2007 artículo científico 0001-3765 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=32779207 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.2 Vol.79 |
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| spellingShingle | The ethnocategory "insect" in the conception of the inhabitants of Tapera County, São Gonçalo dos Campos, Bahia, Brazil Henrique F. Magalhães Multidisciplinaria (Ciencias Naturales y Exactas) insects perception ethnoentomology traditional knowledge The ethnocategory "insect" in the conception of the inhabitants of Tapera County, São Gonçalo dos Campos, Bahia, Brazil Henrique F. Magalhães Eraldo Medeiros Costa Multidisciplinaria (Ciencias Naturales y Exactas) insects perception ethnoentomology traditional knowledge This article deals with the construction of the insect ethnozoological dominium by the inhabitants of Tapera County,which is located in the municipality of São Gonçalo dos Campos, Bahia State. Data were obtained from March toMay 2005 through open-ended interviews carried out with 23 men and 8 women, whose ages ranged from 6 to 66years old. Interviewees were asked about how they perceived and defined the animals considered as insects, whichtypes they knew, and if they used them as food resource. Most of the interviews were tape-recorded, and semi-literaltranscriptions are kept at the Ethnobiology Laboratoty of the Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana. Consideringthe ethnozoological classification system of the inhabitants of Tapera, the term insect is a broad semantic categorythat brings together animals of different and not systematically related taxonomic groups. Apparently, these animalsare culturally perceived and categorized as insects because they are usually considered as noxious, disgusting, anddisease carrier creatures. True insects can be excluded from this ethnocategory due to the perception people have thatsuch animals do not cause injuries or because they are useful. Perceptions toward these animals imply ambiguousbehavior and feelings, which range from more positive attitudes (conservative) to more negative (destructive) 2007 artículo científico 0001-3765 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=32779207 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.2 Vol.79 |
| title | The ethnocategory "insect" in the conception of the inhabitants of Tapera County, São Gonçalo dos Campos, Bahia, Brazil |
| topic | Multidisciplinaria (Ciencias Naturales y Exactas) insects perception ethnoentomology traditional knowledge |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=32779207 |