Auto do Carão: Estudo sobre as identidades culturais dos povos amazônidas através das cirandas do Amazonas

Abstract

This work aims to reflect on the constitution of the identities of the Amazonian peoples in a historical and cultural perspective, ranging from historical European migration to northeastern migration in the mid-twentieth century. It is a research based on the history of the subject of the Amazon in dialogue with Cultural Studies, emphasizing cultural identities and cultural hybridization over time through the cirandas of the Amazon. We will dialogue with the authors Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall and Nestor Garcia Canclini to understand the concepts of culture, cultural identities and the process of cultural hybridization. We will highlight the main historical landmarks of conflicts and the positioning of the inhabitants of the region regarding the affirmation of their identities before the Europeans, as well as the main transformations experienced by the cirandas over time and the point of tension between their narratives. Such facts describe the attitude of the Amazonian man in front of a globalized, standardized society and in the process of cultural homogenization and that, even with the romanticization of his image by the public power, still lives a social rupture capable of putting them in conditions of neglect and subordination. The Amazonian peoples, as well as supporters of the globalization process, saw in the interstice an opportunity for negotiation and power relations in the face of the transformations demanded by modernity and the maintenance of cultural traditions in their cirandas.