This article articulates the decolonial studies contribution (QUIJANO, 2005; LUCINI and SANTOS,
2018) to the habitus notion (BOURDIEU, 2009). The objective is to show how this practical,
incorporated and pre-reflective knowledge, non-literate cultures characteristic, historically
coexisted with the education system influence, an institution that sought to make indigenous,
black, mestizo, and their descendants reproduce elites culture in the Brazilian Amazon since the
Portuguese colonization, in 1616, to the present day. The study concluded that despite the power
coloniality, racism, and exploitation by local elites, these mestizo Amazon workers have historically
managed to insert themselves in the world of work, thanks to a habitus that articulates the
environment domain with an alliances network between exploited. These strategies allowed them
to conserve relative economic and cultural autonomy, in different historical periods, in the face of
the interests of the ruling classes and the State.
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