Documentação do processo manual de fabricação do azeite-de-dendê em Cachoeira-Ba

Abstract

In this work we approach the manual production of palm oil carried out in the communities of Dendê and Vitória, both located in the municipality of CachoeiraBahia. The object of study is understood as a good of an immaterial nature, which is characterized by its historical references and ancestral techniques of African peoples in the Brazil preserved by orality, transmitted by past generations and during the oil palm growers building local identity. Our goal was to document the entire process of manual production of palm oil, including the instruments and equipment used during work. For its execution, we conducted interviews with the oil palm growers of these communities, photographs, field observation and we elaborated a registration form/nomenclator for the systematization of data and a glossary.