LÉO NETO, N. A.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1308320873555411; LÉO NETO, Nivaldo Aureliano.
Resumo:
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".