A DUALIDADE NA RELAÇÃO SOCIEDADE-NATUREZA ENTRE OS INDÍGENAS PARESI E OS FAZENDEIROS DO ENTORNO SOBRE A PAISAGEM

Abstract

The study presents an analysis of the landscape in the basin of Rio Verde, Paresi indigenous territory in Tangará da Serra - Mato Grosso. Guided by the geosystemic method added to the critical bias of geography. It involved studies on differentiated conceptions in the society-nature relationship between the Paresi (Haliti) and the surrounding farmers. It is marked by the indigenous resistance to the process of homogenization of the landscape. The cartographic result of land use and occupation over the last thirty years has revealed a much-altered landscape around indigenous land, marked by the geometries of grain commodity plantations. Already in the indigenous territory the natural vegetation was maintained relatively conserved. Interviews with farmers and indigenous people pointed out incompatibilities in the multiple uses of the river. Traditional rituals were compromised as there are many sacred sites located outside the bounded territory in particular areas. There is also a decrease in animals hunting to loss of habitat. The Paresi indigenous territory, together with other indigenous territories, represents the wealth of cultural heterogeneity and also an important representation in the preservation of biomes in the state.