Fragmento de território de pesca na Amazônia: comunidade Segredinho/Capanema-PA

Abstract

This research entitled Fragment Territory Fisheries in the Amazon, reviewed through daily practices of fishermen and the relationship with the natural elements, had as object of investigation the stories lived and narrated by the fishermen from the “Segredinho” Community, which is a rural fishing community located in the Amazon, in the district of Capanema northeast of Pará state. In order to identify the meanings of the daily practices of those subjects, we made use of stories and observations from the subjects' relationships with the environment. Analyses of these relationships and the daily practices were structured in dimensions that correspond to the fishing grounds in the Amazon, to the knowledge of fishing, identities and traditions, as well as the territoriality of the fishermen and the social organization of the category. The dynamics of these dimensions, viewed from the representation of social work and popular knowledge, allowed us to identify and understand how and why the meanings of the knowledge built into the local environment, which has become the lynchpin of this work. As a corpus, we used the speeches made in open and semi- structure, regular meetings with fishermen, questionnaires, and keep watching over the conduct of relations within the community. The results of this study allow us to argue that these individuals have built their identity from their relationship with the local environment, which enabled the construction of a symbolic / cultural territory from “Lago do Segredo”, scene of experiences and sharing that legitimized their relationship with the environment they live in, as well as the promotion of strengthening of the class through social organization to feasible local fishery management.