Case study about the traditional activity of Handicraft Boatbuilding of "wooden boat builders" from Igarapé-Miri municipality, Pará State and the metamorphosis of the work, capital in Amazon. The objective is to investigate the transformations in way of living and social reproduction of these workers in the context of surrounding society, compared to progressive incorporation of emergent technologies in production of multiple use boats in global market, identifying the forms of maintenance and social reproduction of this means of traditional knowledge, which, since its origin until nowadays, sustain hundreds of people occupied with this economical, social and cultural activity in Pará. This activity shows in its functional structure three segments: the naval carpenter, the caulker and the naval painter, and the hierarchical structure of work is composed by the master craftsman, professional craftsman and the apprentice. The master craftsmen are the center of work, they're the coordinators and owners of crafting shipyards, detainers of tacit intellectual assets passed from each generation to the next they manage to maintain their families in the most adverse situations due to the payment of the activity belonging to the family, and they have the social commitment of sustaining them. In this aspect, it can be seen in the last years the increasing concentration of boat production for manufacturing of rabeta and rabetão motorboat types as well as the insertion of commercialization and production of welded aluminum boats of the same model in Igarapé-Miri town. This generated changes that affected relations of production, income and job offering in crafting shipyards directly, modifying and adapting progressively the way of living and social reproduction of craft builders. The research adopted the methodological pattern of the experiences of case studies, utilizing methodological procedures of different genres in a strategically quantitative and qualitative research in which the ethnographical method permeates the entire analysis.
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