Entre as margens dos rios e as marchas da história: espaço e sociedade ribeirinha na Amazônia

Abstract

The article approaches the historical process of constitution of Amazon's society and the of riverside space. We start from the understanding that the riverside societies express the first forms of production of the Amazonian space built on the mercantile context from the arrival of the colonizers. We emphasize that their living conditions emerge from the insertion of these groups in the context of the spatial formation of the Amazon, since the arrival of colonizers, passing through several other phases of occupation of the region. It is in this context that we glimpse the resistance of the ways of life of these populations, manifest in creation and recreation of knowledge, actions and strategies that go back to their ancestor's wisdom, improved by generations and members in that trajectory of these populations. We contribute to a research field that seeks to analyze these groups trajectory, focusing on the dialogue between space and society. Initially we reflect on the process of insertion of the riverside peoples in constitution of the mercantile colonial society. Then we show the reverberation of this project on the constitution of the riverside society in posterior phases of the spatial formation, especially in the development period of rubber economy.