Religião, negociação e família: um estudo antropológico sobre o casamento judaico em Manaus

Abstract

This dissertation is an anthropological study on wedding in a Jewish community in Manaus city. The research subject is to understand the logic and the values that reign matrimonial union, the affinities hat create the meeting conditions and the way as the families face with the possible cultural differences of this union. On differences that do not resume, necessarily, to ethnic belonging. I observe specifically the couples formed by one of Jewish origin s member at Manaus middle class. Such wedding seeing as an intersection point of individual biographies and social trajectories are good to think on social identities constructions at metropolis, in other words the individual and society relation, the preservation and reproduction of collective memories, modernity and tradition, and finally the transmission of memories through the generations.