2025-12-092025-12-092025TAVARES, Ninon Rose Barra. Socorro Gomes Ferreira uma mulher marajoara de fibra: história de vida, artesanato e design nas tecituras do Jupati em São Sebastião da Boa Vista – Marajó das Florestas/PA. Orientadora Renata de Godoy. 167 f. 2025. Tese (Doutorado em Antropologia) - Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, 2025.https://portaldaposgraduacao.uepa.br/handle/riuepa/256AbertoAutonomiaArtesanatoDesignAutonomyCraftsmanshipDesignTeseCiências Humanas::AntropologiaThe thesis brings to the margins the trajectory of transformation of Maria do Socorro Gomes Ferreira, a woman of the forest and artisan from the municipality of São Sebastião da Boa Vista – Marajó das Florestas – Pará, who works with the fiber of the jupati (Raphia Taedigera), taken from a native palm tree of the Amazonian flora, from the relationship built by the experience in the area of design and handicrafts by the Support Service for Micro and Small Enterprises of Pará – SEBRAE-PA and in cultural promotion projects in the period from 2004 to 2019. To guide the argument of the thesis, I problematize the concepts of autonomy and of agency. Based on feminist approaches, in the concepts of ecological anthropology and of material culture, these two analytical categories helped me to investigate, explain, and comprehend the conditions of actions of the subjects, how a woman of the forest overcame sociocultural, subjective and gender limitations, factors that model her context, and reached her emancipation by means of her handcrafting. By diving into the narratives, I understand how the cultural and economic factors are present in the modeling of the difficulties and opportunities that Socorro had to face and fight. This capacity of action and resistance of hers was weaved with and by the jupati fiber. In an intrinsic relationship between the fiber and the woman, they build up one another through the action of the agency. The fiber is no longer only an object, it gains life. It is this relational weavings between artisan, jupati fiber, and anthropologist that are aligned with the objective of this work: to suggest epistemological constructs from Socorro’s life history aiming at understanding, with and by the jupati fibers, forms of agency and feminine autonomy among women artisans, in the Marajoara Amazon; to ethnograph Socorro’s trajectory in the quest of herself highlights the fight and resistance of the Amazonian riverine women who, like Socorro, through their know-how, in their relationship with the design, from cultural projects, emerge like territory of freedom. For the weaving of this weave, I will follow theoretical guidelines of the Decolonial Anthropology, studies of the feminism in the Amazon, and material culture in connections with the field of Design, in order to ethnograph, under the light of the ethnobiography, the weavings of Socorro’s life. The process of memory recovery was contemplated by means of the methodology of the Oral History and the Photoethnography. The first weaving weaves the beginning of the relationship, brings the expectations and perspectives of me and Socorro’s with the Amazon Tourism in Marajó project – SEBRAE-PA, presents how the first weavings of the relationship between design and handicraft were traced by the actions developed in the two years of the project, and how in this process the first opportunities for emancipation are presented. The second weaving brings the reunion, the new beginning, Socorro´s hope of dreaming of living from her art again after five years of completion of the SEBRAE project, as the field research woven in the two years of the master’s degree, and its developments with the return of the relationship between design and craftsmanship, mark the beginning of Socorro’s process of protagonism. The third weaving presents the project, “Women of the jupati fiber: weaving life with art” approved in the public notice of the Cultural Amazon Program of the Ministry of Culture - MINC and the increments resulting from this project, marking Socorro’s apogee in her cry for freedom, but also the entire process of struggle waged by her to have the right to a better life, to live by themselves and for themselves. To raise Socorro’s trajectory is to deepen the debate about the feminine issues in the Amazonian context, a social imperative. This approach aims at constructing a more equal Society and, by means of empowerment, allowing that historically marginalized and silenced women become agents of their own history.Outros