dos Santos Gilton Mendes, Antonini Yasmine
Departamento de Antropologia, Universidade Federal do Amazonas, UFAM. Av. Gen. Rodrigo Octávio Jordão Ramos, 3000 CampusUniversitário. CEP 69077-000, Manaus, AM, Brazil.
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed. 2008 Sep 15;4:19. doi: 10.1186/1746-4269-4-19.
This paper presents the Enawene-Nawe Society's traditional knowledge about stingless bees. The Enawene-Nawe are an Aruak speaking people, indigenous to the Meridian Amazon. Specifically, they live in the Jurema River hydrological basin, located in the northwestern region of the Mato Grosso state.
The stingless bees were sampled from two ecologically similar regions in the interior of Enawene-Nawe Land. The first sampling took place around the village, i.e., adjacent to houses, by the edge of the Iquê River, next to food leftovers, around human excrement, and simply when the insects were found flying or reposing on a human body. The second round of sampling happened from 29/10 to 02/11/94, during an expedition for honey collection that took place throughout the ciliar bushes of the Papagaio River, an important tributary of Juruena River. We sampled bees adjacent to their nests following the beehive inspection or during the honey extraction. In this work, the main bee species of the sub tribe Meliponina, which were handled by the Enawene-Nawe, was identified, and a brief ethnographic description of the honey collection expeditions and its social-cosmologic meaning for the group was done.
Similar to other indigenous people in Brazil, the Enawene-Nawe recognized 48 stingless bee species. They identified each bee species by name and specified each one's ecological niche. A brief ethnographic description of the honey collection expeditions and bees' social-cosmologic meaning for the group is included.
We concluded that, as an example of other indigenous people, the Enawene-Nawe classify and identify the bees based not only on their structure and morphological aspects but also on the ecological, etiological, and social characteristics of the species.
本文介绍了埃纳韦内-纳韦社会关于无刺蜂的传统知识。埃纳韦内-纳韦人说阿鲁阿克语，是亚马逊中部的原住民。具体而言，他们生活在马托格罗索州西北部地区的朱雷马河水文流域。
无刺蜂样本采自埃纳韦内-纳韦土地内陆两个生态相似的地区。第一次采样在村庄周围进行，即在房屋附近、伊克河岸边、食物残渣旁、人类粪便周围，以及在发现昆虫在人体上飞行或停歇时直接采集。第二轮采样于1994年10月29日至11月2日进行，当时在朱鲁埃纳河的一条重要支流帕帕加约河沿岸的纤毛灌木丛中进行了一次蜂蜜采集探险。我们在检查蜂巢或提取蜂蜜时，在蜂巢附近采集蜜蜂样本。在这项工作中，确定了埃纳韦内-纳韦人所接触的小蜜蜂亚族的主要蜜蜂种类，并对蜂蜜采集探险及其对该群体的社会宇宙学意义进行了简要的人种志描述。
与巴西其他原住民一样，埃纳韦内-纳韦人识别出48种无刺蜂。他们通过名称识别每种蜜蜂，并明确了每种蜜蜂的生态位。文中还包括了对蜂蜜采集探险及其对该群体的社会宇宙学意义的简要人种志描述。
我们得出结论，作为其他原住民的一个例子，埃纳韦内-纳韦人不仅根据蜜蜂的结构和形态特征，还根据其生态、病因和社会特征对蜜蜂进行分类和识别。
