Recently the geographic science has been using the territory concept/category frequently to explain many transformations in the geographical space in the most diverse scales. It has been observed that in the last years the concept/category of lifestyle have been resumed in the geographical researches, principally in the traditional populations analysis. The geography’s events have been the main publication space for researches that deal with this concept/category, most in agrarian geography studies events. In this way, in this research both concepts/categories have been utilized, since comprehends that the lifestyle construction is also a construction of the territory. Therefore they must be treated in an indissociable way to emphasize that the territory is essential for the existence of a lifestyle and vice versa. The use of these two concepts/categories in an indissociable way in the analysis of traditional populations is also important because it is perceived that they need a territory to guarantee their existence and on other hand, lifestyle is an instrument of resistance and combat against hegemonic actors. In one sense, the object of this research is to identify, analyze and periodize the ribeirinhos’ of Caxiuanã Community lifestyle and territory changes that occurred since the creation of the Caxiuanã FLONA and the ECFPn, as well the conflicts and the main individuals in this process. To achieve that objective the following inquire was made: 1) Which changes occurred in the ribeirinhos’ of Caxiuanã Community lifestyle and territory, since the creation of the Caxiuanã FLONA and ECFPn? 2) Which are the conflicts and the main individuals in this process? Besides, the utilization of a participative cartography methods the following methodological steps: bibliographic and documental investigation indispensable to cement theoretically this dissertation, fieldwork through by means of structured and/or semi-structured interviews, informal conversations with the older habitants of Caxiuanã Community, elaboration of community maps using participative mapping, photographic investigation of the community’s quotidian and the treatment and systematization of the collected data. In this way, stands out some data about the results obtained with the hypothesis confirmation that the Caxiuanã FLONA as well ECFPn creation are events that have a direct relation to the lifestyle and territory changes observed in the community analyzed, among which it is highlighted the almost extinction of the religions’ traditions which were and still are the main cultural expression of the Community and the community’s majority abandon of the farming and other inherent activities of the riverside lifestyle as consequence of the territories superposition which the Community had principally with the EFCPn’s arrival that utilized in the beginning all the local available manpower ant still utilizes nowadays, however much less.
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