Tradition and Food Security of the Xikrin of Kateté

Food is a crucial component in the culture of a people. It can be observed that the Indigenous peoples of the Amazon are going through a phase of nutritional transformation, and little is known about the macro and micro contexts of that transformation.

Food is seen as an exercise in nostalgia, a politics of memory, an exercise of memory; food heritage goes beyond the Western worldview of something segmented, material or immaterial.

It was with the aim of recovering and recording this intangible heritage and its origins, which the Xikrin people still live and breathe, that we set out to carry out this project, publishing in the form of 03 mini-documentaries a little of Indigenous knowledge and thus safeguarding some of the food traditions of the Xikrin people of Kateté.

This project was selected by the Food Culture Call for Proposals – Aldir Blanc Law Pará 2020.