Camponeses, espaços coletivos e sociabilidades: apontamentos a partir de Monte Sião, uma comunidade amazônica.

Abstract

This article deals with the relations of sociability present in peasant societies, from case study in Monte Sião, a community on municipality of São Domingos do Capim, in Pará Amazonia, formed by eight large peasant families, which develop productive activities such as extractivism, agriculture, crafts, fishing and hunting in three ecosystems - land, forests and river. The survey was conducted with 42 families and we adopted methods like semi-structured questionnaires application, non-directive interviews and observations of families daily in the main collective spaces of the community, namely, church, association (APEPA), soccer field and the Capim river. We note that the organization of social life revolves around the Evangelical Church Assembly of God, it is the belief that regulates the social and cultural behavior of community peasants. The collective spaces such as the church, association, Capim river and soccer fields were identified as structuring of social life, binders of people who share the same belief, the same group, and are related by kinship, neighborhood and friendship. Such ties corroborate to realization of peasant sociability.