Entre o trabalho na roça e a venda na beira: um estudo da dinâmica no modo de vida das famílias de Caraparu-Pará

Abstract

This dissertation intends to do a reflection over the dynamic of the way traditional agriculture families from Caraparu live. This village belongs to Santa Izabel do Pará city. The main purpose is to understand how that dynamic promote a commerce parallels to a traditional economy constituted through a family basis, that is familiar agriculture which those families call work in arable land . That way, to accomplish an ethnographic study of both economic activities coexistent in that area, is essential to apprehend the causal effects of such change in local living. I must explicit that is not my intention to understand those effects through isolated events such as the mythic beliefs and the Caraparu Taper. My goal is to observe and analyze those families way of living in order to understand how the social dynamic can make them reorganize and create new economic arrangements with the introduction of a new activity as a commerce generated with a tourism in that region. This commerce is called border selling by the natives of Caraparu. That way, is important to understand that process as a causal factor which comes to the center of any social group with a local dynamic.