Os pescadores do amanhã

Abstract

"Individual life, whatever the type of society, consists of passing successively from one age to another, from one occupation to another; in places where ages are separated and also occupations, this passage is accompanied by special acts" (GENNEP. 1978, 26). Based on this reference, among others, this research focused on the understanding of the insertion of the boy in the work of fishing and the ritualistic aspects involving this process, having as a parameter the fishing village of Algodoal, in the northeast of Pará, in the municipality of Maracanã. The method used was ethnographic, along with anthropological field research techniques, such as: open interviews, direct observation, etc. The study shows that the boy's entry into fishing represents one of the strategies to guarantee the subsistence of the family group. This context will take place within a ritualistic aspect manifested in the boy's first trip to the outside fishing grounds, with his insertion in the crew, where his behavior before the older fishermen will show how fit or not he will be to continue the fishing profession. This indicates to us that fishermen's children are seen as a way to guarantee the performance of subsistence activities, as labor in the daily fishing routine, thus excluding an old crew component that caused the fragmentation of the income from this activity, with a tendency to concentrate work and income in the family nucleus.