A (re) significação do lugar: comunidades ribeirinhas na cidade Manaus – AM

Abstract

This thesis was based on a cultural approach in geography and had the support base phenomenology that seeks through the human experience, individual and cultural make sense of the perceived space as it is presented, emphasizing the intentionality of perception, trying to recognize the possibility methodology in geographical science focused on understanding the lived world of riverside living in the city, particularly fishermen cities. This picture, was also valued the question of identity, as the (re) meaning of a place is revealed in the existence of an identity. For indigenous fishing highlighted as a major subsistence practices associated with agricultural and other extractive activities. This heritage is still present in the Riverine Communities in the state. This way, we sought to understand the place from the culture in this riverside city, what cultural resistance still exist for those who came from the interior of Amazonas state and other states of Brazil to the Riverside Communities located near the city of Manaus, and with the influences of urban culture have contributed to a new configuration of live of fishermen who live here.