História e memória: leituras sobre o trabalho com o açaí e suas transformações

Abstract

This dissertation evaluates the transformations about organizational culture of acai work (Euterpe Oleracea mart.). It analyzes the ways of production and preparation of acai vine, in islands and in Belém – PA City, between 1984 to 2015. In such case, this academic research objectifies comprehend the stays and the ruptures caused by the growth of labour market, through the relation between man/nature. The modifications occurred in the extraction and marketing were interfered by the consumption growth and the popularization of the “Amazon drink” or “petróleo negro”, which promoted the reconfiguration of the environment, in the face of relations between subjects and the workspace that resulted in the interference in the lives of individuals who were linked and survived from the work of manufacturing acai fruit and nowadays, “process the fruit for exportation”. It is important highlights that the maturity of this research, the reflections and the works by E.P. Thompson were crucial in order to analyzes collective and individual experiences of acai processors, which allowed the comprehension and the construction life history of individuals. Therefore, considering the life history of people about their past, this academic research constructed a social history which does not analyzes the important events, separately, however through the interaction these events with daily life from the memories, observing working process associated to the production system and marketing of acai.