Vida ribeirinha no lago Cururu: territorialidade, formas de apropriação e usos dos territórios no baixo Solimões (AM)

Abstract

Natural resources are fundamental for the existence of dwellers in Amazonia, they are usually appropriated from territories that belong to communities which share with their members the natural resources necessary to their way of living. However, one of the problems the dweller face is exactly the concomitant use of territory among other social groups that do not make part of their social relationships. Thus, our contribution comes in the sense of understanding the way the dwellers’ life is settled in the communities of Cururu Lake, we intend to show that the appropriation of natural resources is a result of the process of territoriality. This study was carried out in Manacapuru municipality, Amazonas, in three communities located in Cururu Lake; spatially distributed in 28 domestic groups in “Divino Espírito Santo”, 15 domestic groups in “São Francisco do Cururu”. In order to collect the information about their productive practices we took as base the theoretical-methodological procedures of the hermeneutical culture. The research was performed through a semi-structured interview script, being also very relevant the use of the data bank of the “Programa Integrado de Recursos Aquáticos” (Integrated Program of Aquatic Resources) from “Universidade Federal do Amazonas”. The information collected allowed us to see that territoriality is expressed by the local knowledge of the dwellers through the use of the environments of terra firma, low-land and high-land areas; in the ways of appropriation of the natural resources and through the sociopolitical relationships which acknowledge the division of the Cururu Lake into differentiated communities.