A trajetória da associação de artesãos de Novo Airão: processo de ambientalização, mediação e parentesco

Abstract

The material of this dissertation is constituted by ethnographical descriptions and analysis of testimonials that relate to the past, that revive the whole trajectory of a group of people and of their families. It is by means of the social trajectory of this group of female artisans that I approach the problematic of environmental policy and its consequences for the self-proclaimed traditional peoples and communities. The differential aspect here is that the self-definition of the female and male artisans of the arumã occurs after their gathering under an institutionalization into an association, the AANA- Associação de Artesãos de Novo Airão (Artisans Association of Novo Airão), created with the mediation of Fundação Vitória Amazônica NGO. This mediation occurred in the effort of implementing an organizing logic based on a formal and bureaucratized associative model, and its consequences were the reorganization of these artisans, who began to activate their kin network, by means of family labor, as a mobilization strategy, strengthening and ressignification of its own representative unity created before: the AANA