Em torno da juticultura: Apontamentos sobre o sistema de aviamento na cadeia de produção da juta

Abstract

This work analyzed the working relationships established between the different subjects of the jute production chain in Alenquer, Monte Alegre and Santarém, in the lower Amazonas, Pará. In this research, there were combined methods of anthropology allied to oral history to, from the narratives of former jute producers registered during field work in those municipalities, understand how they were related and the different characters that composed the chain. Noting that the “aviamanto” system – a rich source of studies for social and human sciences in general – guide the local socioeconomic practices, the work showed how, in a singular way, the jute culture were hitched to the capitalist mode of production in Interior of the Amazon. Juticultura, for making interacting people of different contexts and places in congruent or complementary purposes, presents a several possibilities of understanding about concepts such as "debt", "freedom", "credit", "assistance" and "sponsor", among others addressed in the research, which are significant to the studies of how the work of exploitation of natural resources has occurred in the Amazon.