Amazonian narratives: dolphin myth representations in narratives of the old residents from Missão Community, Tefé-Amazonas

Abstract

The Amazonian narratives are created and elaborated by the human imagination. They demonstrate elements, wich are necessary to be registered and analyzed in Amazonian context. This work seeks to evidence the tradicional and oral culture through an interdisciplinary perspective in Comunidade da Missão, in Tefé city, Amazonas. When people describe past events, they provide historical, social and cultural information about the place they live. This events are indispensable for historical and identity contribution about this place. This research had a qualitative approach and was based on Amazonian narration about the dolphin, seeking to comprehend the colonial meeting between tradicional people from Amazon and the white man; as weel as the erotic and virile carachteristics this mith can assume as a mythological configuration of women´s opressor, victims of patriarchy. The research problem emerged due to the historical background about the community; it is still presented through the colonizer perspective, because there are few writing records from our ancestors. In order to support this research we were based on the following authors: Bourdieu (2002), Eliade (2016), Slater (1994) and Thompson (1992). This work consolidated the tradicional and oral culture in Missão, and we proved that enchantment narration is still in old people´s memories. The enchantment narration show events that helped us to understand the consequences of colonial meeting, the patriarchy consolidation in our society and violence against women under masculine domination.