O empresário, a ONG, os marisqueiros, a criança: Um estudo de caso sobre a variação de sentidos de um manguezal em disputa

Abstract

This article intends to present some theoretical and methodological inflections based on an ethnographic study of a mangrove area occupied by extractive groups in Northeast Brazil. It intends to present how the different actants in dispute – namely, entrepreneurs, researchers associated with environmental Ngos, the shellfish and crab collectors and the children of a cultural movement – define and use what they designate, each in its own way, shrimp farm, mangrove ecosystem or simply mangrove. From a long-term field research, this paper proposes the analytical exercise of approaching native routes and displacements, making it possible to apprehend the multiple ways of being extractive and indicating, as a result, the need for a complexification of the concept of group or extractive population.