(Associação Nacional dos Programas de Pós-Graduação em Comunicação, 2014-06) CASTRO, Fábio Fonseca de; CORDEIRO, Everaldo de Souza
The paper discuss the significance of the idea of
"communication" in an amazonian riverside community. Working with a
hermeneutic perspective and the ethnographic method, it explores this
sense from the social experience of the community. There is a topological
central axis formed by the association between the ideas of community,
organization and communication. With support from Simmel's
understanding of the social forms and asymmetries, we propose that, in the
observed community, communication is a form of meaning to those two
contentes, community and organization and thus this topological axis
conforms a language, a tool for mediation the asymmetry between the
endogenous (the inhabitants of the community) and exogenous (an NGO
and the Catholic Church, in its actions that place).
