Abstract

SANTOS, Flávia Lenira Gomes Marques dos. Fogo Natural Park (Cape Verde): cosmology and territoriality. Etnográfica [online]. 2017, vol.21, n.3, pp.509-525. ISSN 0873-6561.

The article presents a research on the Natural Park of Fogo Island, Cape Verde, focusing on the socio-cosmologies from Chã das Caldeiras, where the ethnographic research was performed exploring some cosmopolitan contexts in which the cosmos and politics are not isolated. The creation of that park was mediated by a set of techno-scientific conceptions and administrative bureaucracy that considered only the risks and “resources”, blocking the singling ontological relationship of the caldeirense with the cosmos. The analysis of the data showed that the volcano, the plants, animals and other entities are not perceived by the people from Chã das Caldeiras as distant elements, but rather as elements that they relate to. There is a strong relationship between humans and non-humans that was not taken into account when implementing the natural park, which can lead to the failure of some measures and actions being implemented.

Keywords : Natural Park; nature-culture; Chã das Caldeiras; caldeirense; cosmologies.

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