The Culture of Culture: The Traditional Agricultural System of the Rio Negro/Amazon/Brazil

Abstract

In this article, compositions that permeate culture, in the sense of cultural practices of indigenous cultivation, more specifically of the Traditional Agricultural System of Rio Negro (SAT-RN) in the state of Amazonas, are presented through practical experiments and theoretical elements. The SAT-RN was recognized as a National Cultural Heritage by the National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage (IPHAN) in 2010, covering the municipalities of Barcelos, Santa Isabel do Rio Negro, São Gabriel da Cachoeira, encompassing the daily universe of approximately 80,000 people who are part of 23 indigenous ethnicities and their 19 languages. Through historical elements of formation and recognition of the SAT-RN, it seeks to emphasize how these socio-environmental cultivation practices can be notable alternatives, to combine the past in the present, to perhaps build a future, to (re)construct paradigms, as well as to highlight the demands and nuances in maintaining the culture of culture for the strengthening of Food and Nutritional Security and Agroecology. Thus, through bibliographic and documentary research, an attempt is made to present part of this complex universe of SAT-RN.