“Aqui tudo é do rio, se ele quer levar, deixa levar”: gênero, identidade e lugar das mulheres ribeirinhas em Nazaré, Porto Velho, Rondônia

• Ano de defesa: 2019
• Autor(a) principal: Sousa, Rúbia Elza Martins de
• Orientador(a): Ratts, Alecsandro José Prudêncio
• Banca de defesa: Ratts, Alecsandro José Prudêncio, Faria, Karla Maria Silva de, Silva, Valéria Cristina Pereira da, Silva, Maria das Graças Silva Nascimento, Lima, Angelita Pereira de
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Goiás
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-graduação em Geografia (IESA)
• Departamento: Instituto de Estudos Socioambientais - IESA (RG)
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Rio Madeira; Gênero; Mulheres ribeirinhas; Identidade; Lugar
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Madeira river; Riverside women; Identity; Place; Gender
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: GEOGRAFIA::GEOGRAFIA HUMANA
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/9279

This research focuses on the gender, identity, and “lugaridades” of women from the Nazaré riverside community, Porto Velho, Rondônia. Its main objective was to identify and analyze the social and identity relations of women from the Nazaré riverside community at Rondônia, with water, particularly with the Madeira River. This was outlined in three specific objectives, namely: identifying and analyzing the implications of the Madeira River, as an important element of space-place, in the daily life of women; understand the social life of the community, especially women, by the bias of the geographical category and the concept of identity; identify and analyze how the mythical and enchanted beings of the Madeira River are related to the living of women. Bibliographical studies were carried out in the fields of Cultural-Humanistic Geography, Geography and Gender, and studies on Amazon, riverside communities and women. The return to the community occurred in trips of reunion with the women, of interlocution and interviews. I dealt with the themes of research and cultural practices and symbolic relations with the river, in which the myth of Boto surfaced in certain situations and places where women are in the liminal state, in a different way from the better known regional version and activities considered masculine, exercised with other meanings implying in other senses of gender, identity and place. In the Amazonian riverside communities, peculiar marks are observed in individuals' lives, and these are intimately linked to a specific way of relating to nature, especially the river, an element that prevails in this area of the river. The enchantments of the rivers populate the imagination of the riverside women, so that in addition to the functionality that this element of nature provides to life, there is an intricate mythic relation that re-signifies water, as a living matter that creates peculiar characteristics in regional life, being important in the constitution of identity. This is not defined biologically, but is the result of a social construct, being formed from the interaction with the Other and with the place.