O PROCESSO DE COMERCIALIZAÇÃO DO CARANGUEJO-UÇÁ (UCIDES CORDATUS) E SEUS REFLEXOS NAS ATITUDES DE COLETA

Resumen

This study was carried out with a caranguejo-uçá (Ucides cordatus) gatherer community. These people live in extreme poverty and lie at the botton of social heap. The purpose of this paper is to understand the caranguejo-uçá commeraaization and its influence on the crab gathering procedures utilized by the crab gatherer community. Tre mercantile relations verified between traders and crab gatherers, and the outlive necessities, incite the individualistic attitudes in opposition to collectivistic attitudes, that are beneficial for the crab  gatherer community social organization and for the resource and collecting environmert preservation.