A sociodiversidade da Amazônia: O que os saberes locais e tradicionais dos povos nos ensinam em meio à pandemia da Covid 19?

Abstract

Human relations with nature are essential to question the paths we want to follow as a society and whether or not we consider ourselves part of nature. The overlap between man and nature in Western culture, different from the peoples of the forest with their traditional knowledge and cultural matrixes, dragged modern society into crises after crises, in the environment and in socioeconomic relations, with a hegemonic social model that produces disorders such as the Covid-19 disease, which favors its rapid spread making it a pandemic. The Amazon, with its biodiversity, made it possible for the people who live in it to integrate, and so they see themselves, in the complex processes of this great system. The local and traditional knowledge produced in this biodiversity interaction enabled the coevolution of man and nature, where the forest and economies are reflections, even in economic microcosms, of the intrinsic diversity of the Amazon. In a period of reflection on what brought us here, how can Amazonian knowledge help us to think the old and the new in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic? This is what we will discuss in this work.