Cartografias marajoaras: cultura, oralidade, comunicação

Abstract

This thesis builds a cartography of the Marajó- an island located in the north of the state of Pará in the Brazilian Amazon - based on the local culture, orality and communication. The guiding voice to the drawing of the text are the different poetics, predominantly oral, collected on field trips to four different towns (Cachoeira do Arari, Soure, Breves and Melgaço) in two of the Marajó island regions (Campos and Furos e Ilhas). Most narrators heard are older than fifty, therefore expressions such as in those days or at that time refer to the mid-20th century. The inter-voices strength is accompanied by the written Literature, among the authors cited, Dalcídio Jurandir establishes a permanent dialog with the oral. This thesis is not constrained to poetical registers, there is also an exhaustive bibliographic search about the Amazonian-Marajoara culture, which includes texts dating from the 18th to the 21st centuries. This thesis is divided into two different parts. First, a broad view of the Amazon landscape is presented under the perspective of the of the physiography of the_rivers and fields; the travel reports made by foreigners about the Amazon river in the 18th and 19th centuries and the chronicles researched in the 21 st century focusing on the poetic self. Like a river that narrows, the second part is based on the voices of Cachoeira do Arari. In this part, narrators are presented; the elements of culture and communication -present in the speech, in symbols and icons such as those of the Marajoara pottery, in the cities, in the habits - are mapped and the myth-poetics is analyzed