Discutindo e visualizando identidade numa miscelânea de fazeres: a cidade de Manáos ao final do século XIX

Abstract

In this article we will present some characteristics of what it was hybrid, mixed culture of the city of Manáos the end of the nineteenth century and the advent of the twentieth. During this period, the city was experiencing the urbanizing and political surge provided by the economic boom of the rubber economy. In their doings, the elite enriched tried to use import tastes and habits, knowledge and practices, to strip the city of its Indian status and cabocla. However, we see that many of these activities and knowledge were intertwined and incorporated into native, properly indigenous complexion, featuring a hodgepodge, a large mosaic of ways of living. Present as the meeting of the foreign culture with native, formed a peculiar type in the middle of the Amazon Jungle, in the progress of the century. Keywords: Manáos; City; Cultural hybridity; knowledge; practices.