This doctoral thesis aims understanding the senses and meanings of the experiences lived by the riverside populations of São Ciríaco do Urucurituba Community, in Santarém-Pará, in the body-nature-culture relationship in face of the seasonality of the Amazon River and the fallen lands phenomenon. As specific objectives: describe the experiences lived of riverside bodies related to environmental seasonality, and the fallen lands phenomenon in this floodplain community, their perceptions, and strategies; to analyze the meanings and senses that lead its residents to remain in an environment susceptible to seasonal changes, as well as to the risks of material and immaterial damage resulting from the fallen lands phenomenon. I adopted qualitative research approach, based on phenomenology and centered on the analysis of the “structure of the situated phenomenon”. The constitution of the data occurred between December 2016 and July 2019, through participant observation and narratives of four residents, based on phenomenological interviews. The results reveal that the experiences of riverside bodies with seasonality occur within the scope of daily life in agriculture, livestock, in the creation of small animals, in the supply of water and electricity, in the growing lands phenomenon, locomotion, with storms, displacements in the river, large floods, extreme climatic events of flood and drought in the relationship with wild animals that approach homes and are dangerous to health and human life. This perceptual body is also esthesiological, is revealed in the experiences lived and in its dynamic of functioning: it perceives and feels, then moves, acting strategically in the face of the situations presented; from internal mechanisms, it constitutes learning that accumulates in the form of knowledge and that allows them to act in the face of circumstances. The production of this relationship with seasonality means the accumulation of ecological knowledge with the “World of Waters” that, in summary, reveal the Way of Life of the riverside populations in São Ciríaco Community do Urucurituba, showing the chiasma body-nature-culture. The experiences lived with the fallen lands phenomenon also highlight perceptive and esthesiological bodies, revealing visible and invisible faces of what the riverside people see, hear, feel, and do when facing this event. It generates social consequences, material damage, such as loss of houses, boats, areas of cultivated land; and immaterial damage, of psychological dimension. We identified that seasonality reveals a Way of Life with the “World of Waters”, which reflects the identity and belonging of the riverside populations
with the floodplain. And the fallen lands phenomenon, on the other hand, is the threatening element of the loss of the constituted place and identity. The naturalization of experiences with seasonality and the phenomenon of fallen lands is one of the reasons why riverside populations stay in this risky place; also, São Ciríaco Community gains the senses of an identity place, rooted in affective ties with family and friends, which brings happiness, pride, tranquility, an opportunity for survival, acquisition of material goods, schooling, fun, leisure, which preserve the riverside populations individual reminiscences of their historicity related to "World of Waters", in short, of a whole life constituted in this Amazonian place.
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