Puxirum de histórias: lutas por terras e águas em Vila Amazônia/Parintins (1980-2000)

• Autor(a) principal: Medeiros, Mônica Xavier de
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/20287
• topic: Vila Amazônia (Parintins, AM); Trabalhadores rurais; Reforma Agrária; Pesca - Aspectos econômicos - Amazônia; Rural workers; Agrarian Reform; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

This research seek understanding the social relations built in Vila Amazônia, a rural area in the municipality of Parintins/Amazonas/Brazil, between the years of 1980-2000. The work problematizes how social subjects constituted this territory through their experiences and memories. Therefore, we dialogued with rural workers who lived in the vicinities of Miriti, Zé-Açu, Valéria and Jauari lakes, as well as those who lived in Parintins urban area. Oral history methodology was essential because it allowed understanding these workers livelihoods, struggles, demands and resistance to transformations such as expansion of livestock, commercial fishing, predatory cutting of timber and the process of Agrarian Reform occurred in the lands where they lived for generations. These workers way of life is marked by the collective work (puxirum), the stablishiment of rural communities, manioc plantation, manioc flour production, hunting, fishing, tradicional saints festivities and an intense relation with the forest, animals, rivers, lakes and paranás. We sought to understand the correlation of forces between rural workers, cattle ranchers and government in the process of expropriation of Vila Amazônia territory, a process that took place in the context of the First National Plan for Agrarian Reform (I PNRA) of the Brazilian “New Republic” period. Historical evidence (oral narratives and newspapers) allowed us to examine the advances and limits of Agrarian Reform in lands of traditional occupation in the Brazilian Amazon state