Carpinteiros dos rios: o saber da construção naval no município de Novo Airão/AM

Abstract

This study deals on the knowledge of shipbuilding craft of the city Novo Airão /AM. Its main objective is to analyze the constituent elements the knowledge of the handicraft building of boats in the city Novo Airão/AM, finding their relationship and unity. It regards to a research with a qualitative nature which reference is the ethnographic observation method. Regarding the corpus of research, interviewed eight naval carpenters in Novo Airão / AM and two naval carpenters in Manaus/AM. The dissertation is divided into three chapters. The first chapter incides on the general characterization of the city of Novo Airão, describes about the first impressions of the researcher vis-à-vis the field of research and its implications; approaches a part of the scholarly history of Novo Airão and a part of its history invisible , narrated by carpenters of the rivers; and presents the naval carpenters as well as presents the configuration of the naval technical knowledge of these social subjects. The second chapter deals with the general history of shipbuilding on the basis of two criteria for the selection: the chronological and thematic. The third chapter deals about certain aspects related with the know-to-do of carpenters of the rivers, such as: utensils, tools and machinery used by these subjects in the construction of boats; moments of transmission of naval expertise, and the technical relationship between the knowledge of the naval builders of Novo Airão and the activities of the industrials shipyards. It also brings up the followings problematizations: the possibility of the shipbuilding craft knowledge be constituted as a tradition in the Amazon; an environmental issue organized in a discussion about environmental degradation and the acts of the subject of environmental action, the expectations of the shipbuilders in relation to their profession, and what actions have been taking place to the appreciation and dissemination of Brazilian naval heritage. The relevance of this study focuses on determined issues such as: contemplation of the theme on the expertise used in the naval craft industry the city of Novo Airão can to provide the opening of research lines that will allow the diffusion of intangible heritage of naval carpenters; the contribution to the construction of history invisible of naval carpenters, a story that has not been documented; and activation of transdisciplinarity of global knowledge and local knowledge, i.e., the interconnection of knowledge based on the fairness and the symbiosis of the speeches and practices.