THE BRASIVIANOS OF THE MAMU RIVER
MODES OF LIFE AND THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL POETICS OF LIVING
Identity. Territorial markers. Poetic. Brasivianos.
From the rubber periods of rubber, the native rubber trees of the Mamu river were mostly colonized by Brazilian rubber tappers from the northeastern sertão, giving rise, in space and time, to the peculiar Brazilian identity. With the advent of the Evo Morales Government from 2006 this identity becomes threatened due to the implantation of the agrarian reform project in that country and the consequent occupation of these rubber plantations by Bolivian peasants. The extractivists of the Bolivian pandina forest are possessed of authentic ways of life that portray relevant territorial markers and a vast poetics based on a deified cosmogonic symbology. In this sense, the thesis entitled: "The Brazilian rubber tappers of the Mamu River:ways of life and the phenomenological poetics of living”, attentive initially to the genesis of this identity as a consequence of the recruitment of workers from the Northeast to the Brazilian - Bolivian border of the South - Western Amazon, threat and fragmentation of this identity process. In view of the above, it is very important to elucidate this problem, to respond to some of the concerns that have arisen during this research: What factors contributed to the construction and fragmentation of this identity? What were the consequences of this identity crumbling? What are the material and immaterial aspects of the construct of this identity and how have they also been put off in the face of the outbreak of an international border conflict? Which national and international bodies have actively participated in this diplomatic imbroglio? Through an experience intertwined with the brazilian ways of life of the Mamu River, we resort to the phenomenological method and the participant research, aiming to answer these and other questions, considered essential to the development of this research. Behind a conflict involving Bolivian rubber and rubber peasants and / or armed militias, as a consequence of the implementation of "agrarian reform policies" in the Department of Pando, there exists in that traditional riverside collectivity, a divinized aesthetic - mythological poetics, which in its transcendental contemplation, becomes an integral part of the ways of life of its actors, resulting, in this way, in a vast pandino-brasilian social imaginary. In their spatialities and territorialities, the traditional populations of the Bolivian Amazon are recognized in space and time, through relevant structuring territorial markers, imbricated in their daily lives. In turn, also arise the structural markers, which as a result of actions implanted by the surrounding society, and also executed by the coercive power of the state, can culminate in the disruption and discontinuity of the socio - linguistic - cultural traditions, represented and represented in the peculiar Brazilian identity of the Mamu River.