Felipe Süssekind
Felipe Süssekind é professor do departamento de Ciências Sociais da PUC-Rio e atua nos campos da antropologia ambiental, estudos multiespécies, antropologia da ciência e da técnica e antropologia visual. É membro do Terranias: núcleo transdisciplinar de pensamento ecológico (PUC-Rio) e do Núcleo de Antropologia Simétrica (UFRJ). É doutor em antropologia social pelo Museu Nacional/UFRJ e mestre em história pela PUC-Rio. Publicou em 2014 o livro O rastro da onça: relações entre humanos e animais no Pantanal (Editora 7Letras).
Address: Departamento de Ciêncas Sociais- PUC-Rio
Vila dos Diretórios, casa XVIII
Rua Marques de São Vicente, 255
Gavea, Rio de Janeiro
Address: Departamento de Ciêncas Sociais- PUC-Rio
Vila dos Diretórios, casa XVIII
Rua Marques de São Vicente, 255
Gavea, Rio de Janeiro
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Palavras-chave: Boto. Amazônia. Encantaria. Conservação. Transformação.
Transformations of the boto in the Amazon: transversal relations between fields of knowledge
This article proposes a cartography of some of the ways in which river dolphins are represented in the Brazilian Amazon, within processes understood as transformations. The starting point is a collaborative field research experiment conducted in Marajó Island, the world's largest fluvial-marine island, located in the Amazon river Delta. The first transformation to be addressed is linked to the conservation of endangered species, and concerns, on the one hand, the relationship between dolphins, fishermen and fish, and, on the other, between fishing and other human activities. The second concerns the tales in which this animal appears as a man dressed in white seducing young women. Finally, the article turns to the Amazonian Enchantment, an experience that brings together aspects of the African matrix religions and indigenous shamanism, where the river dolphin manifests itself as a supernatural entity. The proposal is to treat those different forms as elements in a set of transformations that are not reducible to each other.
Key-words: River dolphin. Amazon. Enchantment. Conservation. Transformation.
Palavras-chave: Boto. Amazônia. Encantaria. Conservação. Transformação.
Transformations of the boto in the Amazon: transversal relations between fields of knowledge
This article proposes a cartography of some of the ways in which river dolphins are represented in the Brazilian Amazon, within processes understood as transformations. The starting point is a collaborative field research experiment conducted in Marajó Island, the world's largest fluvial-marine island, located in the Amazon river Delta. The first transformation to be addressed is linked to the conservation of endangered species, and concerns, on the one hand, the relationship between dolphins, fishermen and fish, and, on the other, between fishing and other human activities. The second concerns the tales in which this animal appears as a man dressed in white seducing young women. Finally, the article turns to the Amazonian Enchantment, an experience that brings together aspects of the African matrix religions and indigenous shamanism, where the river dolphin manifests itself as a supernatural entity. The proposal is to treat those different forms as elements in a set of transformations that are not reducible to each other.
Key-words: River dolphin. Amazon. Enchantment. Conservation. Transformation.