Narrativas orais: cultura e identidade em Santa Cruz do Arari

Abstract

This study, inserted in the project IFNOPAP (UFPA), shows the results of a research in oral narratives by the native of Santa Cruz do Arari, which serves, simultaneously, as source and transmission of empirical knowledge produced by rustic man and his relationship with the environment. Under the title “Oral Narratives: culture and identity in Santa Cruz do Arari”, it searches unveil the symbolic web aspects of sexuality, morality and religiousness ― ideological subjects which gather the culture and the memoirs components of the identity base of the society, therefore, presents in oral narratives “Cobra Custódio”, “Boto-mirim” and “Bode Cheiroso”. The locus of the search is the municipality of Santa Cruz do Arari, situated on Marajóisland. These narratives were analyzed under the perspectives of the following theorists: Gilbert Durand (1997), MirceaEliade (1991), Walter Benjamin (1994), Paul Zumthor (1993), EcléaBosi (1994), Michael Pollak (1992), Paes Loureiro (1995) and Clifford Geertz (2011). Theorists who guided the reflexive bias in this study.