O saber e fazer da comunidade tradicional caiçara da praia do Bonete na Ilhabela

Abstract

This research was developed inside a traditional fishing community located in region of Praia do Bonete, city of Ilha Bela, State of São Paulo, South Coast of Brazil. Such community is composed of fishermen and boatmen and it is considered an isolated area, since the only way to reach it is by sea or through a 13 KM route along the forest. This community was chosen because it has been living out of social conditioning patterns that are known as part of the whole civilizing model. This research main goal is to describe the surviving and transcendence aspects of this Praia do Bonete fishing community regarding its main daily activities and cultural approach. This research was based on the Etnomathematics Theory that studies the ways to explain and to understand natural and socio-economic contexts in different time and space perspectives. The qualitative descriptive research has some anthropological studies aspects which application is the ethnography of the contact between different cultures inside a dynamic cultural context. This research proposes: to observe this independent community knowledge production process, to study its cultural diffusion process, to research how they produce boats, its main religious and social habits and to identify its life and mathematical processes