Territorialidades específicas e mudanças fundiárias: o processo de territorialização dos Monteiro do rio Preto, Município de Afuá, Pará

Abstract

The history of predatory exploitation of forest resources and fisheries based in unjust social relations, is not exclusive of the islands that form the archipelago marajoara. This case study in one of the islands that comprise the territory political-administrative of the Afuá, municipality belonging to Marajó, seeks to contribute to the understanding of the process of territorialization and construction of specific territoriality of traditional communities in contexts formalization of relations witch the land and intensification market relations. To do so, we discuss social relationships that result in physical delimitations of land belonging to a collective social group named Monteiro açaí drawers, on Ilha Queimada. These drawers, which historically has been undergoing transformations in the relations between themselves and with other social actors and with nature, have been widely affected by changes in the relationships established with their territories and interferes directly in the process of territorialization and maintenance of their specific territorialities . Initially entered into the system of exploitation of labor based patronage system, currently, these changes are reflected in the process of regularization of the island as agroextractivist settlement project. Research findings indicate that increased market integration mainly through increased sales of açaí has contributed to the territorial reorganization of land occupied by Monteiro and point to new challenges and opportunities front of the formal recognition of their possessions.