Body practicings in an amazonian agricultural environment

Abstract

The present work aims to study the body practicings – the practice of cultivating land, the extraction from fishing, hunting and products from the jungles – in rural communities of Boa Vista do Ramos that is located about 17 hours by boat from Manaus. These practings are developed on the land and in the water based on a natural and cyclical time. The ethnografical procedures, with participant research, photographs and chats allowed us to understand how the man interact with the environment, developing activities from low to moderate intensity, continuous or intermittent, in the search of a better quality of life. It shows the adaptation to the hot and humid weather and the relation between the man and the environment.