HISTORY AND LITERATURE IN THE REGIME OF WATERS: AFRO-INDIGENOUS CULTURAL PRACTICES IN THE MARAJOARA AMAZON

Abstract

Diving  in  the dynamic Amazonian social  life, ruled by  the temporality of  waters, the article follows, through dialogues between History and Literature, marajoara populations’ ways of  being and living,  highlighting  their African/Indigenous  heritage  and  local knowledge, which  resulted  from  cultural mediation with Western, written culture.  Lying on poetics, landscapes, and characters created by  the writers Dalcídio  Jurandir  and  Sylvia Helena Tocantins,  this  text visualizes  the  footsteps of   the marajoara, who elaborate, with great creativity, meanings to restate cosmologies, and  sociocultural experiences. These historical  subjects,  in  their subtle manifestations and practices of  belonging, dribbled both limits and  intolerance  from  secular and  religious powers,  in  the Amazonian Marajó island.Key  words:  water  regimes,  African-indigenous  cultures,  local knowledge.