O complexo do caju e a cultura alimentar nordestina

desafios para as políticas culturais

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze how cashew, an endemic species of northeastern Brazil with a wide registered and cultural representation since the colonial period, the focus of pioneering heritage actions in the 1970s, currently represents a loss of 90% in the field. A theoretical approach used considers the concept of food culture from anthropology in dialogue with the sociology of culture and food. By problematizing the crisis arising from the standardization of eating habits, which also reflects an identity crisis, it is concluded that cultural policies within the scope of food culture have developed a multidisciplinary and inter-institutional construction, which considers a complex network of relationships in the quality of practices, knowledge and doings fall into place. In the context of cashew farming, especially family farming, these actions are urgent.