This study aims to understand, from the point of view of historical experiences, changes
and continuities in the ways of life of the residents of an Amazonian fishing community,
40 do Mocooca, from the emergence of new forms of mobility with the construction of a
road that provoked the emergence of other contact zones, social practices, cultural
exchanges, altering traditions in local daily life. The research was carried out in the 40 do
Mocooca region, a village in the municipality of Maracanã, in the Salgado Zone of Pará,
between 2018 and 2021, chronologically defined between 1960-2020. Theoretically, it
was based on Social History and Cultural Studies and methodologically, it followed
guidelines from documental criticism and Oral History to dialogue with collective and
individual memories in circuits of oral tradition as a constituent of the ways of being,
thinking and acting of the inhabitants of this region. In the work, the thesis is defended
that changes perceived in the study of the past compared to the present, on the one hand,
alter webs of relationships woven for decades between residents and the environment
with the contact of new historical agents, information, cultural products, especially, at the
turn of the 20th to the 21st century, on the other hand, even in unequal conditions, the
social agents of the place re-elaborate the new technological and cultural apparatuses and
continue in defense of their living traditions, fighting daily for what they believe to be the
path of local development. To explain this thesis, the research is based on analyzes of the
experience and experiences of these people, as well as on the study of small and large
local events, some individual, others collective, in an attempt to understand the trajectory
of this community that presents itself in a network of relationships and decisions of a
mobile life between the countryside and the city, between the past and the present,
between nature and urbanization, between fishing and a type of tourism, which we call
“alternative” and “informal”, which comes forcing the emergence of some globalized
practices observed from the arrival of new needs and habits of local consumption, above
all, by the younger ones.
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