CULTURE AND NATURE, SPEECH AND WRITING IN CITIES AND FORESTS OF THE JURUA RIVER VALLEY, STATE OF ACRE, AMAZONIA

Authors

  • Gerson Rodrigues de Albuquerque Universidade Federal do Acre

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18542/amazonica.v4i2.962

Abstract

Departing from a research conducted between 1993 and 2001, this study has as its central objective the dialogue with the cultural practices of women and men of the Juruá river basin, in the Brazilian Amazon, pointing the ways these rural workers articulate and re-articulate themselves in the social production of the space in which they live, considering the complex processes of relation between them and the natural world. This study also focus on the social relations and conflicts established between writing and orality, trying to expose the historical struggle of the rural people to master the skills of reading and writing as a way to overcome manipulation and control exerted by the patrones.Keywords: Culture, nature, Acrean Amazon.

Published

2012-09-24

Issue

Section

Original Articles