The everyday life of the waters in the tradition of the quilombola community of rio low Itacuruçá-Abaetetuba, PA

Abstract

The article proposes to characterize the productive activities developed by quilombolas and riverside populations from Nossa Senhora do Perpétuo Socorro community in the in the low Itacuruçá river Abaetetuba-PA, whose life reproduction is based in family groups, but also combines close relations with the waters nature end the rivers, water holes and igarapés based on local traditions. The methodologic way is inserted in the descriptive qualitative approach and the bibliography and field study, with some families. From the analysis of the results, it was possible to see that the daily of the waters is constitutive and indispensable for the construction of the rural-riverside-quilombola way of life in the Tocantina Region, generally. In this way, scattered in the cabocla language, customs and beliefs, knowledge and sociabilities, conforms conflict and otherness situations. By symbolic dimensions of exchanges and farmer group community actions among others social practices, the quilombola and local tradition is produced and vivified by the pour from the waters, reinvents by the amazoniágua regime, making the social life, the local economy and the productive cycle pulsate.