“Amazonian time”: necessary review on traditional peoples and communities

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https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v65i.91186

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socio-biodiversity, structural time, ecological time, traditional calendar, multi calendar

Abstract

In the scientific literature, a pattern of “Amazonian winter” and “Amazonian summer” has been standardized   through generalizations of classic literatures about the region. Nonetheless, these literatures exhibit the existence of a multiplicity of times and calendars produced by different social groups. This article aims to analyze the traditional calendars produced by these actors and compare them with the normalized Amazonian “winter” and “summer” based on the work of Galvão (1955). Towards achieving this objective, a bibliographical search was conducted, and research was selected that allowed the analysis of the time characteristics of traditional calendars at the levels of analysis: conceptual cycles and cycles of activities. As a consequence, the time of the peoples and communities analyzed have common characteristics, although the Amazon is multi calendar. Therefore, plentiful research on Amazonian “winter” and “summer” normalizing an impoverished conceptual cycle, which almost nothing expresses the socio-biodiversity of the region.

Author Biographies

Mairon de Sousa Furtado, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)

Graduação em Tecnologia em Agroecologia pelo Instituto Federal do Pará - campus Bragança, e Mestrado em Agriculturas Familiares e Desenvolvimento Sustentável, pelo Instituto Amazônico de Agriculturas Familiares (INEAF), da Universidade Federal do Pará - Belém.

Gustavo Goulart Moreira Moura , Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)

Graduado em Oceanologia pela Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG) e Mestrado e Doutorado em Ciência Ambiental na Universidade de São Paulo (PROCAM/USP). Atualmente é Professor Adjunto da Faculdade de Oceanografia do Instituto de Geociências da Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Professor Permanente do Programa de Pós-graduação de Oceanografia (PPGOC/UFPA) e Colaborador do Programa de Pós-graduação em Agricultura Amazônicas (PPGAA/UFPA). É pesquisador associado do NUPAUB/USP, coordenador no Brasil da Cooperação Técnica entre a UFPA e o Colégio de Michoacán (COLMICH/México).

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2025-05-16

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Furtado, M. de S., & Moura , G. G. M. (2025). “Amazonian time”: necessary review on traditional peoples and communities. Desenvolvimento E Meio Ambiente, 65, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.5380/dma.v65i.91186

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Vol. 65 (2025)

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