“No meu sangue corre as águas desse mar”: o movimento do bloco Pretinhos do Mangue, Curuçá-PA, Amazônia

Abstract

This research seeks to discuss about the idea of nature produced by the playful people from the “Pretinhos do Mangue” block, in Curuçá County-Region of the Salgado Paraense. To carry out this discussion, I start with the theoretical guidelines of Environmental History (ARNOLD, 2000; PÁDUA, 2010; WORSTER, 2015) and Anthropology (CSORDAS, 2008; INGOLD, 2015). And, in this perspective, ethnography was used as a way to experience the ways of dwell in the environment, which are present in the block parade, at Carnival (FABIAN, 2013; SALDI; WAGNER, 2013; PEIRANO, 2014; INGOLD, 2015). During this period, the interlocutors aim to present the main non-humans who inhabit the city environment, and, as well, to enunciate the day by day of the artisanal fisherman. And these perceptual experiences of the “salgado” from Pará are materialized through their allegories: the “Caranguejo”, the “Guará”, the “Ostra” and the “Barraca do Avoado”. However, it is the use of “mud” (“tijuco” and “tabatinga”) that has attracted the most attention from the “playful”, because for them the mud-in-body manifests the “ecological” experience and the idea of “nature preservation". In this context, the media began to publicize this experience with the mangrove swamp, which started to promote more and more tourists to participate in the block. With that, it is noticed that the playful-curuçaenses seek to take the life of the "salgado" paraense to their parade, in order to "show" this experience to "all" who visit the Curuçá Carnival. Thus, the mud of the mangrove swamp and the allegories are not simply accessories used by the playful-curuçaenses, since they present their ideas of nature, at the “Pretinhos do Mangue” parade.