Solstices and equinoxes as shadows of life production

Abstract

The shadows represent Cultural Affairs, economic development and politics of everyday life. In the city of Macapá (BR) and here in town (MZ), the equinoxes and solstices, symbolize overlapping shadows, as well as the changes of seasons that subsidize festivities for these events. The shadows are often construed as dark places that relate to dark, understood as places of fear, awkwardness, strangeness, scary and little reveal their potential in everyday life. The article seeks to bring the shadow and category and his contributions in different spheres of socio-cultural, economic and political life. The case study was based on the residents of the village of Here in the District of Massinga on Mozambique (MZ) and the city of Macapá in the State of Amapá in Brazil (BR). The survey results show that the shadows are used by residents of the village of Here for agriculture in the production of plant varieties low photoperiodism, in the hunt for the identification of shelters/animal hideouts, fishing to locate shoals of fish determination of distances from in the shadows along the route, and the azimuth direction path walking trails, production of annual calendars based on natural cycles of shadows, in the creation of oviparous to select the number of males or females, being that the eggs in shadows will lead males, preparation of annual calendar, among others. Already in Macapá, the shadows are used in the ventilation of rooms between infrastructure, shading sidewalks and public squares in animal production are used to improve the quality of meat and in education are inserted into the syllabus of Geography education under nickname of equinoxes.