Caminhos e (des) caminhos do associativismo entre os "Povos das Águas": a Associação Beneficente dos Pescadores de Marudá, Pará

Abstract

The aim of this dissertation is focused on discussions about association group involving the traditional population in Amazon region, especially people on the riverbank and fishmen on north-eastern Paraense. This research has as locus the fishing village in Marudá. The fishmen that inhabit this region and the route of one of existing associations in that place, Associação Beneficiente dos Pescadores de Marudá (ABPM,) will have special attention in this study that intends to understand how the capital stock as an aid process lends and confidence in the search of common objectives – involving or not fishmen and the controllers of ABPM in ways and (un)ways of association group in Marudá. The research framework used for this study was based on Putman (2007) and was complemented with studies made by other authors. This association was privileged and during some years it was the place which was perceived by ABPM. It was the only one which was conducted its objectives for the fishing production in the region making possible the analysis of association route of local fishmen. The methodology applied in this study was the application of interview script among associate informal fishmen, former-associates and non-associate fishmen in ABPM. The anthropological technique of observation and field note-taking had been relevant to establish the contact and dialogue with the studied reality. In order to aid the analyses and interpretations, the analysis technique of Bardin’s content (1977) supported the subjective interpretations during the analyses of the interviews. Although the human existence potential in order to get the politics organization of local fishmen, the practical of association group in Marudá present some difficulties which are caused by the weak capital stock of that control the ABPM and marudaense fishmen whose predisposition for the participation is fragile. Besides this result is temporal. This is the result of the inexistence of common objectives hindering the arise of what it would have been accumulated for the reinforcement of the capital stock.