Organização social na reserva extrativista Tapajós-Arapiuns: sistemas sociais em mudança

Abstract

By the present thesis text were reviewed processes changes in the in the way of social organization of social groups resident in the Reserva Extrativista Tapajós-Arapiuns, Pará state. Focusing the analysis according action agents point of view, considering the outspread of the intersection of processes related to family, individual, communitary and associative life, with that mobilized by agents bound to state bureaucracy, legal apparatus, comprehensive spectrum institutional environments. The research methodology involved theoretical aspects as well empirical ones in accordance to the construction of quality data (participant observation, interviews, bibliography), consenting to the theoretical reference of analytical theory of structuration. Such approach allowed us to understand the field of construction of the redefined way of life of the Reserva inhabitants, so, institutionality refocused in the context of social changes due to State intervention, perceived from privileging the structure and the action, the subject and the object, fundamental to human interaction analysis. By this field of interaction are together the relations of power, referential to sanctions definitions and redefinitions, rules and resources that overlap to informal institutions that organize day-to-day life for local agents. As a result, are demonstrated that changes occurred in structural properties fundamental to the ways of social organization of Resex´s inhabitants, relative to production for own consumption, to collective labor (puxirum), to standards of land usage and the associative forms of representation. Nevertheless, not all changes in these structural properties had as a change factor the institutionalities projected by Reserva´s institutionalization. Other factors are associated to them, like: increased State presence, institutionalizing social assistance programs, education and health promotion, which create waged job opportunities in the communities, altering the economical dynamics of agriculture and extractive products.