Vaqueiros, compadres, criadores de gado e transformações nos campos do Marajó: relações sociais em mudança

Abstract

This thesis aims to analyse the wayof life of cowboys, cattleherders and godparents in anarea within Marajó Island with focus in the change of social relations of dwellers in the setting of the Atuá River, between Anabijú and São Miguel Rivers at the Muaná county. The chosen fenomena are seen in a long range perception about formative links of Marajó Island society as cattleherders from its beginnings of economic endeavors, also their proceedigins to build social groups in order to understand changing and unchanging features of cowboys, cattleherders and goodparent’s activities as main traits of their way of life. Communication means, mores and uses go together with a social context that reacts to the introduction of new tools and mass media from the realm of modern social life such as cattle certification, land demarcation, and a public environmental en surance for the interval of time when fishing is not permitted.