A caça de animais na comunidade quilombola custaneira, em Paquetá do Piauí: entre mitos e crenças.

Abstract

The present research has as objective to knowthe practice of hunting of animals of the regional fauna andthe relation with the sacred in the traditional marooncommunity Custaneira, inPaquetá do Piauí. It is proposed to report the influence of hunting animals,under the experience of the inhabitants of the Custaneira Community, / relating the hunting of animals in the community studiedwith the rational practice of using environmental resources,identifying animals that are hunted in the community through a review andpresent myths of hunters related to their beliefs.The research was made from the exploratory approach, with systematic observation, documentary research and ethnographic approach. For instrumentalization of the research, semi-structured interviews, participant observation and audiovisual recording were used. To provide theoretical support, we used authors such as Araújo (2011), Brandim (2007) Bernard (1994), (2013), CBRO (2015), among others.The study sought to observe the characteristics of hunting in the Custaneira Community, as well as the way of using the regional fauna and the relationship with the sacred in that community.