Sítio Arqueológico São Paulo, Valéria/AM: turismo e patrimônio cultural

Abstract

To present dissertation he/she has the intention of evidencing the relationship that the residents from São Paulo of Valéria/AM maintain with the archeological ranch in that you/they live, starting from the study about cultural heritage and tourism in archeological areas. São Paulo is a traditional community that it is seated at the ranch that receives the same name, and that it was identified in the archeological researches of Hilbert and Hilbert (1980) as AM-PT-02. It is one of the five communities that are part of the territory context of Valéria/AM, rural area of the municipal district of Parintins. For their natural and sociocultural beauties they are being constituted to four decades as a tourist destiny for international cruises and for some national and regional tourists. For the construction of that dissertation, it was gone through the research bibliographical, documental and field research. Tends an approach of qualitative stamp and procedure ethnographic. The subjects were 10 local residents, identified in agreement with criteria previously defined. For the date collection it was used interviews structured participant observation and field diary, with the purpose of identifying the perceptions and the residents' daily practices in relation to the archeological ranch and the local tourism, registering like them is organized for the tourist activity in the Amazonian community. The study revealed that with the insert of the tourism as one of the economic activities, the residents' relationship with the atmosphere in that you/they live tended modifying, assisting the external situation his/her reality, coming to live several conflicts. The social representation is punctuated that the residents built on the tourism and the archeological ranch, as well as the challenges faced by the local residents, in organizing to accomplish the activity. It is a work that sought to fill out some gaps on the sociocultural processes of that Amazonian context and at the same time it raises several other glances for the complexity of the execution of the tourism in archeological areas. The contribution to the community, suggests her the execution of the Tourism of community Base, tends in view the data reveal that the place is propitiate for that modality of the tourism, being this one of the residents' of the Mouth challenges.