NAS ÁGUAS DO ARAGUAIA: A NAVEGAÇÃO E A HIBRIDEZ CULTURAL

Abstract

The present dissertation refers to a study case about the process of hibridez in the riverside cities of the Araguaia River, occurred with the politics of settlement and steamnavigation on the 19th century. The main objective was showing how the cultural hibridez has prosecuted and how the identity was built, in the context of with the development, the defense and the agricultural marketing of the agrarian politics, along the river and his tributaries. Along the work, was observed the multiplicity, the diversity and the complexity that has marked the temporal evolution of the river space, like the integration way, work and entertainment, emphasizing his power of stimulating the social cohesion, besides to act as a mediator among states. The research looked for support in a scale of primary and secondary documentary sources: royal letters, memories, trades, acts, official reports, photographies, maps, interviews, books of renowned writers, whose finality understood the mechanisms that produced the cultural hibridez in the remote interior of the Araguaia. The first part describes the river like a space that stimulates, in the human imaginary, the wish of knowing his mysteries. It shows the politics of settlement adopted by the governments, which have had like purpose, to help the growth of the navigation. It analyses the form of the implantation of the military prisons, and his influence on the steam-navigation, like inducing agent of deep alterations the social structures existents up till now. (the aldeamentos). In the second part, was presented the process of introduction of the steamnavigation, in the middle of the 19th century, for the development of the commerce and the cultural ribeirinho practices.