Articles
Afuá: autonomy and appreciation of riverside landscapes in the Amazon
Article number
1345_20
Pages
149 – 156
Language
English
Abstract
The Amazon is recognized worldwide for the importance of its majestic forest and the widest river in the world, the Amazon River.
In this great aquatic and biodiverse inheritance, how can small riverside towns help in the conservation of this monumental Amazonian landscape? Thus, this study deals with the conservation of the Amazonian landscape on the scale of the small Amazon riverside town of Afuá. The timeless cutout of the landscape discussed here does not reject former constructions, on the contrary, it invests in the ideal of reconciling indigenous culture before the colonial period, the paradigm of modernity, and the resulting contemporaneity.
It also increases the belief in the future for the multiple conserved Amazons, both real and imaginary, and in the diversity of the living forest reconciled with cities.
For such, the studys guiding path supports the reinforcement and recognition of autonomies through the identification and conservation of Amazonian landscape motifs, the interchange at regional, urban, and local scales.
This occurs in the anthropological approach to field research in the light of observation, informal conversations, and photographic records to recognize particular political, economic, social, and cultural relationships in everyday life.
The result and proof are present in the palafita typology of the city; in the architecture; in the gardens; and in the riverside habits that are still preserved, such as the cultural link with the forest and the river.
To reinforce landscape conservation, perspectives of production and income are suggested in the implementation of community-based scientific-cultural tourism in the urban and peri-urban space of Afuá-Pará.
In this great aquatic and biodiverse inheritance, how can small riverside towns help in the conservation of this monumental Amazonian landscape? Thus, this study deals with the conservation of the Amazonian landscape on the scale of the small Amazon riverside town of Afuá. The timeless cutout of the landscape discussed here does not reject former constructions, on the contrary, it invests in the ideal of reconciling indigenous culture before the colonial period, the paradigm of modernity, and the resulting contemporaneity.
It also increases the belief in the future for the multiple conserved Amazons, both real and imaginary, and in the diversity of the living forest reconciled with cities.
For such, the studys guiding path supports the reinforcement and recognition of autonomies through the identification and conservation of Amazonian landscape motifs, the interchange at regional, urban, and local scales.
This occurs in the anthropological approach to field research in the light of observation, informal conversations, and photographic records to recognize particular political, economic, social, and cultural relationships in everyday life.
The result and proof are present in the palafita typology of the city; in the architecture; in the gardens; and in the riverside habits that are still preserved, such as the cultural link with the forest and the river.
To reinforce landscape conservation, perspectives of production and income are suggested in the implementation of community-based scientific-cultural tourism in the urban and peri-urban space of Afuá-Pará.
Authors
P. Mergulhão, C. Petry
Keywords
Amazonian landscape, Amazonian landscape motifs, conservation, circular economy and sustainability, community-based scientific and cultural tourism
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