Pessoas, Sereias e Divindades: um estudo etnológico, mitológico e etnooceanográfico em uma Colônia de Pescadores no Sul do Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

This dissertation consists in a dialogue between the areas of Ethnology African-Native American Mythology and Etnooceanografia on mythological narratives of fishermen and fisherwomen of the Colônia de Pescadores Z-3, linked to the Patos Lagoon, municipality of Pelotas, Brazil. Based on the ethnographic method, this study presents the life trajectories of men and women who fish, as well as reveals the characters of the Nossa Senhora dos Navegantes, Iemanjá, Mermaids and Tritões in the extreme south of Rio Grande do Sul, among other territories. This study will build on the empirical categories that can be recognized in everyday life and in the narratives of fishermen and fisherwomen Colônia Z-3 in an effort to understand the meanings attributed by this fishing community to the mythical characters and aquatic and coastal environments located in the southern region of Rio Grande do Sul and elsewhere. Therefore, this analysis has in view the unfolding of mythology in the political, economic and social order of this population. Finally, I conclude that their knowledge, through mythology and rituals, shows respect for the diversity of cosmologies that make up the same territory, in this case, the territory of the waters. In this way, this work proposes that traditional knowledge be taken as an example in the production of knowledge by modern science and in the production of public policies by the State