Nas correntezas e contra-correntezas do rio Caraparu: memória e história em comunidades tradicionais na Amazônia oriental (1912-1950)

Abstract

This work deals with the dynamics of the formation and development of village salong the course of a river-the riverCaraparu-in the contextof the first halfof the twentieth century, more precisely in the period from 1912 to 1950, locatedsouth of thecurrent city of Santa Izabel do Pará. The goal is to relate the production of the agro-mining and trade in barges using the river Caraparu while road. Until 1950these populationslivedon the banksof that, and sobuilt abeliefinimaginarybeingsbackground andheartof the forest, while practicing Catholicism of devotion to the saint sand shamanism cabocla. To achieve the goal, we chose to usethe techniques andproceduresof oral history, working on collectingnarrativesin communitiesofBoa Vistaandthevillage of Itá Caraparu, while they proceeded to the mining of written documents. The proposed work is coming from oral narratives, with evidentiary source, ie, providing evidence of the facts, and then make the collection of other sources. From the intersection of sources, aims to understand the complex relationships that these people have built, as well as the relationship between the economy of small-scale with a popular religion, typical of rural areas, composed of so-called traditional populations.