Teses em Ciências Sociais (Doutorado) - PPGCS/IFCH
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O Doutorado Acadêmico em Ciências Sociais funciona no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais(PPGCS) do Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH) da Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA).
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Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Mulheres descolonizando a Amazônia pelos caminhos de vida: Produção de subjetividades atravessadas pelo projeto de nação desenvolvimentista(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2020-07-10) CASTRO, Brenda Thainá Cardoso de; LOUREIRO, Violeta Refkalefsky; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3092799127943216Subjectivities constantly challenge the nation project when confronting developmental policies that adopt values and ways of life that are different from their own. In view of this, some contexts, such as the case of the Amazon, allow us to perceive how the production of subjectivities occurs in dynamics with capitalism and the State, specifically in the years of political crisis experienced in Brazil since mid2014 and 2015, going through impeachment from President Dilma Rousseff until the rise of the farright government of Jair Bolsonaro. The present study is then designed in this scenario to think from the life paths of women living in Tapajós, how they relate to the nation project under the developmental sign that historically projects the future of the nation in the Amazon through logic of expropriation and exploitation. The study was carried out through field research developed over recurring trips from 2017 to 2019, connecting them to macropolitical developments in the period and the reality in three different locations: the village of AlterdoChão, Santarém; the Jamaraquá community, in the Tapajós National Forest; and the community of Coroca, on the Arapiuns River, part of the Lago Grande Agroextractive Settlement Project. In addition to the experience and daily conversations during the visits, 11 interviews were conducted with women who live in the three locations, of different ages, to think about the process of producing subjectivities. In this context, we started with references from postcolonial and decolonial studies, as well as schizoanalysis, to identify the effects of coloniality on contemporary structures and relationships, both on subjects and subjects, but also on institutions and regions, such as the Amazon. , built in the social imaginary as a gendered and racialized place, which historically is in line with a vision of a developmental project for Brazil. And that, for women, this process will involve peculiarities based on the coloniality of gender, which also crosses relations of race, class and place of origin / belonging. It was realized that subjectivities can both be compatible with the values that serve capitalist and state interests, but they can also be incompatible, leading to a rupture and the singularization of these subjectivities. Equally, it was also noticed that there is a possibility of crossing, in which a rupture is sought, but due to the structural and systematic limitations, displacement is a tool found to meet one's needs, coexist within a capitalist society and still produce desires even if involved in modern / colonial logic.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Abuso incestuoso infantil: o poder judiciário garante a proteção integral da criança vítima?(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2016-03-31) GUIMARÃES, Sandra Suely Moreira Lurine; LOUREIRO, Violeta Refkalefsky; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3092799127943216Incestuous child abuse can already be considered a problem of public health due to its high incidence and the harm caused to the child’s development. The dynamics of this form of violence is complex and involves psychological, social and legal aspects. The present study aims to accomplish an approach on this theme starting from its social and legal interface. We shall argue that incestuous practice can compromise the balanced development of the child and thus deny her condition of subject of desire as well as her condition of subject of rights. In both forms of denial of subjectivity, the child is seen only as an object. Our goal has consisted in analyses how judiciary power brazilian has faced the cases of incestuous abuse, in order to investigate the treatment dispensed to the child victim. We discuss that the criminal model, grounded on punitivism is limited to punish the aggressor, relegating the victim to a secondary plan such that she plays only the role of probatory object in the process. Because of the, we sign that Restorative Justice, being an approach focused in the victim, is in line with Victimology, and is the proper legal model to interrupt this modality of violence. For it cares about repair and mainly because it contributes to the child’s resiliency process.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Ocultar e preservar: a saga da civilidade em São Luís do Maranhão(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2010) CAMÊLO, Júlia Constança Pereira; MENDONÇA, Kátia Marly Leite; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5325063796266136The thesis approachs the city of São Luis of Maranhão in the end nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Analyzes aspects of the imaginarium about the town located on an island and that see itself integrated into the mainland, the country and Europe. It discusses the prospect of American civilization from the thought of Rodó, Fecundo, Manoel Bonfim, Leopoldo Zea and the way the residents of São Luis sought recognition of the city as owner of civility. Analyzes how the people of São Luis – the “ludovicensis” - dealt with the marks of slavery like evidence of barbarism, and as the thought of the nineteenth century, should be eradicated. Approach the process that turned the popular manifestation “bumba meu boi” into a symbol of the culture of the city, before something barbaric, condemned the suburb of the island. It shows that preservation observed in the photo albums of the town was ???"fronts"??? , but safeguarded mansions of the nineteenth century and provided a new classification of São Luis as the fifth city in Brazil to receive the title of World Heritage Sites, a return, a new insert, a highlight among the cities. The analysis was performed from iconographic sources, maps, literature, and newspapers.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Menino que faz menino ainda é menino?: homens jovens e pais construindo o seu protagonismo(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2011-05-06) SANTOS, Jorge Luiz Oliveira dos; CANCELA, Cristina Donza; http://lattes.cnpq.br/8393402118322730The proposal of this Thesis was to investigate the subjective aspects that are related to parenthood among the young parents that belong to the middle class urban population, in the city of Belém, Estate of Pará, who are living or lived through this experience. Due to the theoretical opacity, which is practical as well, the paternity event in young ages, the work shows an centrality of references that identify issues about the pregnancy amongst those Young parents as an exclusive female problem. At the same time, it was discussed in which way this phenomena can be shaped, among other things, in relation with gender and social class, which revealed very heterogeneous paths and profiles. The deconstruction of ideas coming from the common sense about young parenthood, with the support of the ethnographic method, that gives the voice, or better saying, listens to the young male parents and guided by an anthropological look, shows how those actors have been contemporarily constructing their role as protagonists in the parenthood event.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Sendo mãe, sendo pai: sexualidade, reprodução e afetividade entre adolescentes de grupos populares em Belém(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2007-11-23) PANTOJA, Ana Lídia Nauar; MOTTA-MAUÉS, Maria Angélica; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7861116876230464This study it focuses the events related to the affective-sexual trajectories of young people (men and women) of popular layers, in its majority, students of a public school. Guided for an antropological look, the research contemplated beyond the 36 adolescents (24 women and 12 men), main interlocutors, pertaining people to its nets of relations in the family and the school, such as: mothers, aunts, sisters, grandmothers, godmothers, teachers and friends. The direct comment in the contexts of sociability of the group was increased of informal colloquies and the use of the field’s diary, having been carried through deepened individual interviews with the 36 participants. In the interior of the different trajectories analyzed here, the contexts and unfoldings of the pregnancy during the adolescence, the maternity and the paternity, the conflicts, the impasses, the arrangements, rearrangements and the nets of relations established around the mentioned events are pointed, in the scope of the family and the school. The cultural logics that preside over the affective-sexual experiences, informed, over all, for the sort gender differentiations are detached. The objective was to formulate the understanding, as next as possible translated in a interpretation to the cultural meanings attributed to the events for that they live deeply them.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) No Fútila, no Mayombe: modernidade, desenvolvimento e riscos no tempo de paz em Cabinda - Angola(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2011-01-14) BUZA, Juliana Lando Canga; CARDOSO, Luis Fernando Cardoso e; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9240601863315295; AQUINO, Maria José da Silva; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1799861202638255In this study, the relation of contradiction integration between two towns of Cabinda, province of Angola, is put into question, with activities of exploration of natural resources such as crude oil and wood. Futila village, nearby Malongo oil field, where oil activities are concentrated under Chevron-Texaco leadership. And the town of Buco-Zau immersed in a region next to the Forest reserve of Mayombe. Modernity, development and the risk are prioritized as the main concept in this study. And as a broader context, the reconstruction of Angola after the peace agreement, post civil war in 2002, when conception of development and that of modernization are perceived, the stimulus of an economy guided by interests of exportation of primary goods such as crude oil and wood, even though the strong appeal of so called sustainable development. Placing a constitution of Angola while the country is integrated in the process of modernity, since the Portuguese colony through thirty years of overcoming the civil war, started after the conquest of independence in 1975, reflection was sought about meaning, for the population who suffered directly from exporting enterprises, adoption of the development model synonymous of the economic growth in governmental actions to the reconstruction of the country. Affected so much by exclusion, evidence was sought of which way is better to promote life, if it is to resist by opulence, effectively to force those population to overcome the constraints imposed upon them, of cultural order, social and political, such as environmental, in relation to activities of exploration of natural resources. On other hand, it also aimed to perceive the meaning of environmental requirements in strategies of legitimating undertaken in activities of exploration of natural resources, in order to mitigate adverse effects in the social and environmental that involve them. In conclusion, features were clearly the face of disintegrating local ways of life, based in fishing, small agriculture and collection, under the risk imposed by exportation activities, therefore without, considering the integration of the point of view of development such as substantive freedom, this is, in a sense of propitiate to those populations a worthy conditions of life, to perform strategies including politics of collective knowledge and the valorization of other rationalities more suited to a social reappropriation of nature.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) A violência desnuda: justiça penal e pistolagem no Pará(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2010) GUIMARÃES, Ed Carlos de Sousa; BARP, Wilson José; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6546508090587542This thesis examines the violent practice of gunmen system in Pará and discusses the selectivity of criminal justice of Para in the face of such conflicts that always culminate with the physical elimination of the victims or result in life on hold the „sworn to die‟, people involved with the land question in Para (pastoral agents, wives and children of rural leaders killed, among others) and they suffer constant death threats by farmers, landowners, loggers and gunmen. It develops from „two major work areas‟: the first throws light on the violence built into the gunmen, then to understand how social relations between gunmen, principals, intermediaries and bring to life the victims of the crimes of command and the latter, in turn, is to discuss the selectivity of the agencies of power involved in the criminalization of the weaker social stratus on one side, and immunization of the criminal actions of the most powerful segments of society on the other. This second front work seeks to explain the impunity in the murders under orders sought by the criminal Para, understood as a set of agencies of power, such as the Civil Police, Prosecutors and the Judiciary.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Brincar é coisa séria?: um estudo do brinquedo na cultura da modernidade(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2008-01) PORTO, Íris Maria Ribeiro; LOUREIRO, Violeta Refkalefsky; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3092799127943216This study searches toys as material and symbolic culture members aiming to discuss changes and meanings in modern culture before globalization of cultural industry. It focus this discussion in four categories of toys: traditional, industrial, regional and virtual, that nowadays make the act of playing. It is based on the affirmative that modern playing is fluid, quick and dislocated. People are only consumers in modern culture because toys are related to the things that happen in society, its beliefs, ideology, habits, ethics and system of language and values. So there is a disillusion about the world that operates in childhood through the toys. Children have in their hands an image that allows actions and manipulations in consonance with the representations suggested by industries of cultural possessions. It shows toys in this modern culture as a product and its images, senses and symbols are reflections of the perception of society about childhood. This study was done in São Luís, Maranhão, aiming to get the changes between two kinds of economical situations, parents of four different groups, shopkeepers and artisans. It is a qualitative research. Its results shows that toys nowadays have potential to seduce people to consume them, with senses and functions to fit all different places; therefore toys faces the problem of managing local and global characteristics. This study concludes that modern culture has brought loss and profit to the act of playing in the transition of the handiwork pattern to the industry work. It also concludes that changes we see in toys in the last four decades of the twentieth century are not restricted to them, but are restricted to a system that has been established and implies in changes in popular children’s culture, and moreover in the places of children in modern culture.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Cientistas, visitantes e guias nativos na construção das representações de ciência e paisagem na Floresta Nacional de Caxiuanã(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2007) BEZERRA, Maria das Graças Ferraz; ANTONAZ, Diana; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7547028254641362Study analysis scientific knowledge production process in a traditional knowledge setting at Caxiuanã National Forest, in Melgaço, Pará, Amazon, Brazil, where the Goeldi Museum maintains a scientific basis open for Brazilian and International researchers. The focus is on the relationship between scientists and native field guides considering both the environment where they work and the given academic system.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Discursos do conflito entre os diferentes agentes mediadores dos movimentos envolvidos no caso Eldorado do Carajás: novas tendências e práticas políticas(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2011-06) SILVA, Henry Willians Silva da; BARP, Wilson José; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6546508090587542The thesis was based to analyze the actions and speech of the various mediating agents of non-various government departments involved with the defense of causes and social movements struggling for land in the States of Pará. The grounds underpinning the analysis of speech analysis belong to the French line. The survey is a qualitative-descriptive kind. The interview questionnaire served as an instrument for the production of data. The results indicated that there were various speeches and performances focused upon the dispute for land rights, claims, justice and challenge to social order. Consequently, the social movements’ struggles and conflicts against the state policy in the Amazon Region have increased. There has been positive activist discussions over the struggle as a strategy to agrarian sustain over the relevance conflict in Pará, used as an outcome to its opponents. It also establishes the possibility of carrying out public policies in remote areas neglected by the government as well as the criminalizing of conflicts.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Falando de amor: discursos sobre o amor e práticas amorosas na contemporaneidade(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2011) GONÇALVES, Telma Amaral; MOTTA-MAUÉS, Maria Angélica; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7861116876230464This study has as its focus the discourses about love and loving practices experienced by dyads that constitute two partnerships in specific universes – the heterossexual and homossexual, both belonging to the urban middle classes. He falls in the field of more recent studies on the gender approach focusing on the new settings that affective and sexual relationships have assumed nowadays. In this sense, my interest about that subject was to investigate the discourse of partnership affairs, the idea of love (this love) and his expression in daily life which enabled me to identify its different versions and translations, as well as the approximations, defferences and ambiguities in the discourse and practice of love.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) O corpo da alma: cosmos, casa e corpo espírita kardecista(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2011-09-27) PAES, Anselmo do Amaral; MAUÉS, Raymundo Heraldo; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0915136632611666The object of this study is to understand and highlight the role of the body in religious field by investing in an analysis of brazilian kardecist spiritual embodiment, which is constructed by social representations and imaginary. The analytical effort and the distribution of the chapters are based on the schema macro/microscopic – “Cosmos-house-body”. The first part deals with the construction of kardecism by its encoder, the French intellectual Hippolyte Rivail, known as Alan Kardec (Paris, 1804-1869), and its pretensions to unify “science, philosophy and religion”, producing a Cosmos. The second part presents the Spiritist Centre as a sacred space of its ritual universe. The third and last part is focused on the “body”, as semantic referential, which appears too as heuristic tool for analysis. Analyzing the conceptions and imaginary over the body in Kardecism, this work proposes that relations between the spiritual world, the Spiritist Centre and the body are crucial for understanding the spiritist person.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Um toque de voyeurismo: o diário íntimo de Couto de Magalhães (1880-1887)(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2008-04-25) HENRIQUE, Márcio Couto; BELTRÃO, Jane Felipe; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6647582671406048This work intends to analyze the intimate diary of José Vieira Couto de Magalhães, wellknown Brazilian politician and scholar from the second half of the 19th century, as an ethnographic registration which informs about top issues of that time and simultaneously stresses the efforts of an individual in order to build a coherent personality, although the diary presents itself rather incomplete. By conceiving a private diary as a cultural practice of shaping oneself’s personality, it is discussed the effect of truth present in this kind of writing and the implications of its usage in the Social Sciences. The most manifest themes along the diary are discussed: body, health and disease. As a writer about himself, Couto de Magalhães, highlights concern about body education and activities practiced by his contemporary fellow men. Since he was interested on the ideal of hygienic and bourgeois family, typical in the 19th century, it is evoked themes like homosexuality, dreams, marriage and medicine. The diary shows the author’s awareness related to the search of balance between body and mind, in order to allow him reach his ideal of self-control, besides the attempt to develop and forecast a self-image to the future.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Atravessando fronteiras: viagem rumo à saúde tradicional(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2009) NOBRE, Angélica Homobono; BELTRÃO, Jane Felipe; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6647582671406048The work aims at traditional health and proposes the research of knowledge and practice of traditional healthcare practitioners who apply body techniques to heal those who seek help. Conducted in two separate locations – Icoaraci District in Belém Metropolitan Area and in Chipaiá village in Cachoeira do Arari municipality in Marajó Island, both in the Brazilian Amazon – study explores the social construction of traditional healthcare practices as symbolic-magic and social element. Research methods involved observation and open interviews of/with eight different practitioners, four in each location, to understand and deepen knowledge on a popular massage practice named “puxação” which belongs to the Traditional Healthcare System (STAS). Study discusses concepts of creed, myth and symbolic representation in traditional knowledge; the way rituals are conducted and how such practices contribute to the social construction of traditional health practitioners; concepts of health and disease according to STAS understanding; the relationship between healing practices and the social system. Analysis also presents the interrelation between two different rituals Alma Mater massage in Portuguese, “puxação-da-mãe-do-corpo“ and Pregnant Massage “puxação de barriga-cheia” unique STAS practices, their importance for women´s health as well as their influence on the Western Healthcare System (SOAS).Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Santos e Espírito Santo, ou católicos e evangélicos na Amazônia marajoara(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2011) PANTOJA, Vanda Maria Leite; MAUÉS, Raymundo Heraldo; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0915136632611666The presence of Christian evangelicals in the Marajó Region of Integration is not recent; it dates from the turn of the 20th century, but only in the last two decades has there been what may be called an expansion of their presence. This expansion is evident from a statistical analysis of censuses of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics – IBGE, from 1991 and 2000 and from incursions in the field between 2005 and 2010. The increase in the number of evangelicals in a traditionally Catholic region has mobilized the Catholic Church into improving its performance in the local religious “marketplace”. To understand the fabric of the relationships between Catholics and evangelicals as well as between evangelicals and other evangelicals was the objective proposed in this research project. The field data indicates that the Catholic Church has used the advance of Pentecostalism in the region as an argument to effect some changes within its sphere, particularly in regards to the feasts of the saints, as much in the cities of Marajó as in the capital, Belém do Pará. On the other hand, the evangelicals have been working hard to affirm themselves as a strong religious group, and have concerned themselves, in market terms, much more with their “brothers” of other denominations than with the Catholic Church itself.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Identidades musicais no Curso de Licenciatura em Música da Universidade do Estado do Pará: uma composição em acordes dissonantes(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2011) BRAGA, Lívia Alexandra Negrão; COSTA, Antonio Maurício Dias da; http://lattes.cnpq.br/2563255308649361This study aims at interpreting the different musical routes taken by the Music Course students of the Universidade do Estado do Para- UEPA. The ethnographic work allowed me to observe three profiles which stand out in the Course: the erudite musician, the gospel musician and the popular musician. From the categories cultural identity, musical identity, diversity and carrier, I sought to understand how these musical identities interact and compound the singularity of a Course whose purpose is to form musical educators. The study is presented in three parts: the first one deals with the dense description of the Music Course, the students, the professor/researcher and the role the disciplines Cultura Popular and Música e Sociedade - taught by me- played considering the elaboration of the problem. The second part begins with a theoretical approach related to the construction of socialization networks among musicians and it also describes the profile of each group, the erudite, the gospel and the popular, according to the way they present themselves in the researched context. The interaction between these three groups is the object of the third part. From the perspective of musical diversity – musical preference and identities and cultural diversity – I point out the identities.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Trabalho, códigos, gratidão e reciprocidade na prisão: um estudo de caso na Penitenciária Estadual de Parnamirim, no Estado do Rio Grande do Norte(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2007) MOREIRA, Hélio Luiz Fonseca; LOUREIRO, Violeta Refkalefsky; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3092799127943216The main goal of this work is to analyze the meaning that the work assumes in the prision context, having like reference to penitentiary Public Parnamirim, located in state in the Rio Grande do Norte. This penitentiary was going created to be a socialization model, in the molds written in the Penal Executions Law. PEP it configures as a heterogeneous universe, marked for contradictions and conflicts subjective of the varieder orders, that is solved with base in the informal normative codes that govern the relations constituted between recluse, and between these and the leading team. In your everyday find power relations, founded in an instrumental rationality, but we also find sentimental relations, support in affectivity liaisons, gratitude and reciprocity. To board the meaning yhat the work assumes in PEP, we accomplish a fast incursion in the penitentiary constitution process in the modern society, without deepning, because in this incursion our goal is just to situate the reader in relation regarding the modern penitentiary roots. In the same direction elaborate a collapse portrait where finds the penitentiary system Brazilian for, soon after, come in by Statet do Rio Grande do Norte's penitentiary system and, finally, come in in the PEP to investigate the combination dynamics that allows the social places institution, the identities definition and the relative values existence to the normality and the behavior transgression.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Da fala das ruas à fala dos tribunais: a retórica jurídica e seus impactos nas relações sociais(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2009) FRANCO, Evanilde Gomes; LOUREIRO, Violeta Refkalefsky; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3092799127943216This work presents the universe of legal language from the point of view of the semiotics of law. It brings up the analysis and the formulations of the argumentative aspects involved in law rhetorical themes aimed at showing how the argumentative force of legal speech establishes a kind of social tension starting from the relations among the various components of legal language which can be found in legitimation, neutralization, domination, and delimitation of the order created by the state. The research is an analysis of discourse and rhetoric in the light of rationality and the fundamentation that comes to the legitimation developed by state law. A rigorous exam of prosecution data was collected in order to discuss the actions of the Courts of justice in Pará. There was also the use of some interviews with authorities in this area. The references were those of contradictions between the system of law rationality and the way it is actually used in the legal domain, it identifies the connection between democracy and the state of law, all included in legal speech which can bring judicial system near the common citizen or push them apart.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) O embate entre o visível e o invisível: a construção social da violência no jornalismo e na política(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2010) COSTA, Alda Cristina Silva da; BARP, Wilson José; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6546508090587542This research aims to examine the use made of violence as a social problem in journalistic and political contexts, from articles published in the Jornal Nacional, from Rede Globo and in political speeches of the candidates for president, Geraldo Alckmin (PSDB ) and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT), on the electoral timetable, here called television campaign, on the elections of 2006. As the main methodological contributions have been used the analysis tools of hermeneutics and frameworks (frame analysis), with the intention of revealing this focus on the violence and make a theoretical reflection on this social problem in the "post-media", a term known in this research as to the process of exacerbation of the media and its insertion as an institution that builds the sense of reality to people's lives. Television news and the election campaign, tested in August, September and October 2006, were taken as important programs of references the social construction of reality. It appears that there is a superficiality and homogenization in the treatment of this social problem.Item Acesso aberto (Open Access) Um dizer que fala de vida e morte: revelações e silêncios na comunicação sobre o diagnóstico do câncer(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2008) SALGADO, Ana Cristina Soeiro; MAUÉS, Raymundo Heraldo; http://lattes.cnpq.br/0915136632611666One of the problems faced by physicians in their practice with cancer patients refers to the dilemmas related to communication about the illness, especially because of the associations still present in the social imagination about death and suffering, which gives an important symbolic dimension to diagnosis. Interpreted as a social construct, the theme of cancer diagnosis is analyzed from the perspective of Brazilian physicians, at Ophir Loyola Hospital, a state public cancer hospital in Pará, north of Brazil, including a total of 20 informants, who agreed to take part in interviews focused on diagnosis communication, including disclosure of diagnosis and other information related to the diagnosis. Through a socio-anthropological approach, different variables are analyzed, including those related to the physician, the patient, the family and the illness, which enables comprehension and integration of the discourse in its social context, including some differences between public and private practice. Data suggest the physician-patient interaction is influenced by class condition, with its socio-historical and cultural determinant. This makes communicating diagnosis a complex phenomenon, aggravated by the limited access to health services, which contributes towards the great amount of patients who arrive at the hospital with no chances of cure. The results indicate that influence of the family on medical decision-making is determinant to the limits of information related to cancer diagnosis, including disclosure of diagnosis and prognosis. Hopelessness is frequently mentioned as a reason for non-disclosure, especially in advanced stages of cancer, with a progressive silence as the illness worsens.