Research lines

1) Populations, Ethnicities and Culture: Uses and Representations. This line aims the historical understanding of Amazonian social relations and the construction of its cultural fabric, from the pre-Amazonian history, through the Portuguese / Spanish colonization and the constitution of the internal frontier, originating from the expansion processes, especially in the 20th century. To consolidate the objectives of this line of research, it is necessary to produce studies and research using multiple approaches. They are: on social and cultural history in the Amazon; on culture and its languages in the Amazon; on material and immaterial historical heritage in the Amazon; on indigenous and Afro-descendant populations in the Amazon; on gender and sexuality in the Amazon and; on religiosity and its representations and practices in the Amazon.

2) Work, Power and Social Practices. This line aims the historical understanding of the construction of power relations in the Amazon, from different interpretative approaches, whether they are based on a political, sociological, economic or anthropological approach. It privileges, without being exclusive, the understanding of the construction of Amazonian society in its urban or rural dimensions; colonizers or colonized; farmers and collectors etc. The temporalities of this Amazonian societal construction comprise the Amazonian prehistory, passing through the Portuguese / Spanish colonization and the constitution of the internal frontier, originated from the expansion processes, especially in the 20th century. To consolidate the objectives of this line of research, it is necessary to produce studies and research using multiple approaches. They are: studies on Amazonian prehistory and indigenous populations; studies on the Portuguese / Spanish colonization process and its relations with native populations; studies on regional colonization, with a focus on the South-Western Pan-Amazon; studies on the construction and appropriation of the Amazonian border; studies on the conflicts produced by the economic expansion over the Amazon; studies on regional economic development; studies on public policy and its regional impacts; studies on social movements in the Amazon and; studies on regional corporate formation; studies on regional economic development; studies on public policy and its regional impacts; studies on social movements in the Amazon and; studies on regional corporate formation; studies on regional economic development; studies on public policy and its regional impacts; studies on social movements in the Amazon; and studies on regional corporate formation.

Coordinator
Prof. Dr. Alexandre Pacheco

Vice-coordenator
Prof. Dr. Rogério Sávio LinK