Pela margem da cidade: lazer, sociabilidades e controle social no subúrbio belenense em meados do século XX

Abstract

This research is focused on social history in the Amazon. It deals with leisure experiences and sociability of residents from suburban neighborhoods from Belém do Pará, in the middle of 20th century, specifically in the districts of Guamá, Condor and Jurunas, the three nearby the Guamá riverside. In addition to the interest on practices and perceptions from residents related to leisure and sociability, is also of interest the activity of public security officers dedicated to the control and repression of practices from local residents related to leisure events and entertainment. The historical sources accessed are newspaper clippings – available in libraries and public archives in Belém – chronicles and memory novels, that yield a version about the city in the past, as well as oral stories of men and women that used to live in the paraense capital in the middle of 20th century and have experienced the effervescence of the urban life in religious feasts, cabarets, Saint John‟s festivities, carnival associations, dance houses, among others.