Das Amazônias (Aug 2023)
Sozinhos, mas nem tanto: memórias e lutas contra o isolamento numa comunidade pesqueira no litoral Nordeste da Amazônia paraense (1960-2020)
Abstract
The text argues, from the point of view of historical experiences, changes and continuities in the ways of life of an Amazonian fishing community residents, Forty of Mocooca, from the emergence of new forms of mobility with the construction of a road that provoked the need of other contact zones, social practices, cultural exchanges, changing traditions in local daily life. The research was carried out in the Quarenta doMocooca region, a village in the municipality of Maracanã, in the Paraense Salgado Zone, between 2018 and 2021, chronologically defined between 1960-2020. Theoretically, it was based on Social History and Cultural Studies and methodologically, it followed guidelines from documental criticism and Oral History to dialogue with collective and individual memories in circuits of oral tradition as constituents of the ways of being, thinking and acting of the inhabitants of this region. In this paper, the thesis defended is that changes perceived in the study of the past compared to the present, on the one hand, they change webs of relationships woven for decades between residents and the environment with the contact of new historical agents, information, cultural products, especially, at the turn of the 20th to the 21st century, on the other hand, even in unequal conditions, the social agents of the place re-elaborate the new technological and cultural apparatuses and continue in defense of their living traditions, fighting daily for what they believe to be the path of local development. To explain this thesis, the research is based on analyzes of the backgroundand experiences of these people, as well as on the study of small and large local events, some individual, others collective, in an attempt to understand the history of this community that presents itself in a network of relationships and decisions of a mobile life between the countryside and the city, between the past and the present, between nature and urbanization, between fishing and a type of tourism, which we call “alternative” and “informal”, which has been forcing the emergence of some globalized practices observed from the arrival of new needs and local consumption habits.
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