Mudanças climáticas e patrimônio cultural de povos indígenas e comunidades tradicionais no Pantanal

Abstract

This article proposes reflections on the impacts of climate change on the cultural heritage of indigenous peoples and traditional communities in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul – a Natural Heritage Site of Humanity. The effects of the
environmental, water and climate crises affect the cultural heritage of fishermen, indigenous peoples and quilombolas, threatening the safeguarding of their cultural assets. These factors contribute to the acceleration of the climate change process and put the cultural heritage of indigenous peoples and traditional communities at risk – such as the trough viola, the single-pole canoe or Pantaneira canoe, the São João bath and the ceramics of the Terena people, registered as intangible heritage – that depend on this territory and biome for cultural reproduction. The methodological procedure adopted in the research consisted of the analysis of written documents, such as reports by IPHAN, UNESCO and the “Comissão de Registro de Saberes Imateriais dos Pescadores e das Pescadoras Tradicionais no Município de Cáceres”, and interviews carried out with indigenous peoples and traditional communities of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul.