Francisco Ramos, ‘um novelo de linha que você vai, vai, vai...’ : memórias Sateré Mawé sobre os processos de formação e institucionalização de Samaúma e Babaçutuba

Abstract

This text is part of a research project for a Final Course Project (TCC), whose theme is: FRANCISCO RAMOS, ‘a ball of yarn that you go, go, go...’: Sateré Mawé memories about the formation and institutionalization processes of Samaúma and Babaçutuba. Anchored in the field of Social History (Castro, 1997; Barros, 2005), it engages with the methodology of Oral History (Albeti, 2008), which allowed for the recording of people's memories related to the formation and institutionalization processes of these communities. A thematic script was created for the analysis of the interviews, which show that the formation of the community occurred with the arrival of the Ramos family from Marau-Maués (an indigenous area) and the Marinho family, along with the arrival of the Catholic Church in that locality. Subsequently, the officialization/institutionalization of the place as a community and village led to both having records and an organization following the norms established by them. It is a study that explores other stories, based on the memories of the Sateré-Mawé indigenous characters.