摘要：Departing from a research conducted between 1993 and 2001, this study has as its central objective the dialogue with the cultural practices of women and men of the Juruá river basin, in the Brazilian Amazon, pointing the ways these rural workers articulate and re-articulate themselves in the social production of the space in which they live, considering the complex processes of relation between them and the natural world. This study also focus on the social relations and conflicts established between writing and orality, trying to expose the historical struggle of the rural people to master the skills of reading and writing as a way to overcome manipulation and control exerted by the patrones. Keywords : Culture, nature, Acrean Amazon.
