This work is the result of an anthropological approach on the boatmen of the city of
Tocantinópolis-TO, a contribution in the area of heritage in the Tocantina region. The research
problem was: How can the knowledge and practices of boatmen be thought of as heritage in
the city of Tocantinópolis? The general objective was to understand the knowledge and
practices of boatmen as assets in Tocantinópolis. The specific objectives were: To identify the
knowledge and practices through orality/life history of the boatmen; Report the boatmen's
relationship with their profession and their object of work; Discuss how to make boats and
their nomenclatures; Describe the characteristics of cultural practices, from the perspective of
religious tradition. Heritage, memory, identity and orality are concepts worked on in the
development of writing. The methodology used was ethnographic, a detailed description of
the field in which it provided oral interviews and photographs to be presented, with a
theoretical basis from the Social Sciences, the preservation of intangible and material heritage
is important for documenting the city's history from the perspective of the boatmen. The results
obtained from carrying out the research demonstrate that material and immaterial heritage are
the basis for understanding the work practice of boatmen and, consequently, the process of
exchanging knowledge and its representations with know-how, making the identity of this
group perceptible. Therefore, when we talk about boatmen, their knowledge and practices, we
see how a group of people with the same profession are responsible for part of the construction
of the cultural and historical identity of the place. In the first chapter, we have the introduction
with the presentation of the research problem, objectives and methodology. For the third
chapter, entitled Cultural Practices in Bico do Papagaio – Tocantins, we will describe cultural
practices through religious tradition,
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