The lunar-tide cycle viewed by crustacean and mollusc gatherers in the State of Paraíba, Northeast Brazil and their influence in collection attitudes

Traditional human communities have a wide knowledge of their environment. Collection of animals in estuarine and coastal areas are directly influenced by tidal cycles. The aim of this study is to evaluate the understanding of the tides associated with the lunar cycle held by people who gather crusta...

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Autores principales: Nishida, Alberto K, Nordi, Nivaldo, Alves, Rômulo RN
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1360678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16393342
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-2-1
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author Nishida, Alberto K
Nordi, Nivaldo
Alves, Rômulo RN
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description Traditional human communities have a wide knowledge of their environment. Collection of animals in estuarine and coastal areas are directly influenced by tidal cycles. The aim of this study is to evaluate the understanding of the tides associated with the lunar cycle held by people who gather crustaceans and molluscs in the State of Paraiba. The empirical knowledge of 20 crab gatherers and 30 mollusc gatherers was recorded through open interviews and structured questionnaires. The results showed that the gatherers have an accurate comprehension of tidal phenomenon based on their exploitation of natural resources, which perpetuates through generations.
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spelling pubmed-13606782006-02-04 The lunar-tide cycle viewed by crustacean and mollusc gatherers in the State of Paraíba, Northeast Brazil and their influence in collection attitudes Nishida, Alberto K Nordi, Nivaldo Alves, Rômulo RN J Ethnobiol Ethnomed Research Traditional human communities have a wide knowledge of their environment. Collection of animals in estuarine and coastal areas are directly influenced by tidal cycles. The aim of this study is to evaluate the understanding of the tides associated with the lunar cycle held by people who gather crustaceans and molluscs in the State of Paraiba. The empirical knowledge of 20 crab gatherers and 30 mollusc gatherers was recorded through open interviews and structured questionnaires. The results showed that the gatherers have an accurate comprehension of tidal phenomenon based on their exploitation of natural resources, which perpetuates through generations. BioMed Central 2006-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC1360678/ /pubmed/16393342 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-2-1 Text en Copyright © 2006 Nishida et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Research
Nishida, Alberto K
Nordi, Nivaldo
Alves, Rômulo RN
The lunar-tide cycle viewed by crustacean and mollusc gatherers in the State of Paraíba, Northeast Brazil and their influence in collection attitudes
title The lunar-tide cycle viewed by crustacean and mollusc gatherers in the State of Paraíba, Northeast Brazil and their influence in collection attitudes
title_full The lunar-tide cycle viewed by crustacean and mollusc gatherers in the State of Paraíba, Northeast Brazil and their influence in collection attitudes
title_fullStr The lunar-tide cycle viewed by crustacean and mollusc gatherers in the State of Paraíba, Northeast Brazil and their influence in collection attitudes
title_full_unstemmed The lunar-tide cycle viewed by crustacean and mollusc gatherers in the State of Paraíba, Northeast Brazil and their influence in collection attitudes
title_short The lunar-tide cycle viewed by crustacean and mollusc gatherers in the State of Paraíba, Northeast Brazil and their influence in collection attitudes
title_sort lunar-tide cycle viewed by crustacean and mollusc gatherers in the state of paraíba, northeast brazil and their influence in collection attitudes
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1360678/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16393342
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-2-1
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