Na lição da abelha-mestra: análise do complexo simbólico e ritualístico do mel e das abelhas sem-ferrão entre os índios Atikum.

Abstract

This dissertation proposes, an approach from ethnozoology, understand the dynamics of cosmology among Indians Atikum-Uma (State of Pernambuco). To this goal, focuses on the importance of the honey and stingless bees on tore in this group. Based upon the "Science of Concrete", demonstrate how the Indians set their rating systems and how they affect the structural plan of his cosmology. However, I also consider very important foundation in the generative perspective, showing thus, how cosmologies are made in the action, as from ecological changes (the rise of honey-bees - Apis mellifera), in practice, the systematic elements refrained. Finally, I made use of notions such as streams, boundaries and hybrids, to elaborate the hypothesis of a symbolic complex that we called the "Honey Complex".