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ANDRADE, Simei Santos; REIS, Magali Dos  y  ALVES, Laura Maria Silva Araújo. What ribeirinho children of piriá village - curralinho/pa say about their cultural practices. child.philo [online]. 2018, vol.14, n.29, pp.213-239. ISSN 1984-5987.  https://doi.org/10.12957/childphilo.2018.30527.

The presented research focuses on a portion of a larger study on "Amazon childhood"; with emphasis on the cultural practices of ribeirinho children and their respective childhood. The chosen locale of the aforementioned research happens to be in the Piriá Village district; in Curralinho County/PA in the Marajoara Amazon region. It's the largest community in the region outside the county area; with a group of children from 0 to 11 years old that reaches the percentage of 38;06% of the local population (IBGE; 2010). A place with such cultural activities and children says plenty about their lifestyle. Due to the lack of public policies; the village endures the consequences of poor accessibility to basic services such as health care; education; sanitation; housing and infrastructure; which leads to aggravating problems to the population. This is particularly evident as we see the low rates of social indicators in the Marajoara Amazon; specially for HDI and IDEB (Basic Education Development Index). The total of interviewed are 20 children from 5 to 11 years old; natives of the Village; however we haven't limited the object of study to them as we understand that childhood is not strictly isolated from the adult's cultural and personal experiences. Therefore; the listening of the families considerably strengthened our analysis; enabling us to perceive characteristic s of the Riberinho lifestyle; which entails that both children and adults are intricately connected by their peculiar lifestyles. The study had as its primary objective analyse what children from the Piria village report regarding their own cultural practices experienced throughout their daily routines in a rainforest area. The theoretical methodological reference is based on childhood social studies partnered with childhood sociology; and also with childhood geography; infant anthropology and infant history. The investigation was conducted by a qualitative approach; based on infant ethinography; which is considered an effective method for the investigation of cultural aspects of specific social groups. The conclusions of this part of the study shows that the children of Pirá village master the knowledge linked to their personal experiences that guide their social daily practices; such canoeing; fishing; hunting; grab açaí berries; to use matapi (trap for shrimps made of wood among others). They have the capacity of talking about their community in a simple; concrete and sensitive way; with the predominance of the oral tradition over the written; producing stories that generate a multitude of cultural and regional insights. This essay will address four cultural practices experienced by children..

Palabras clave : cultural practices; ribeirinho children; piriá village - curralinho/pa.

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