Ways of life and ways to drink of young indigenous in a transformation context/Modos de vida e modos de beber de jovens indigenas em um contexto de transformacoes

• Published in: Ciência & saude coletiva 2010-05, Vol.74 (5), p.709
• Main Authors: de Souza, Maximiliano Loiola Ponte, Deslandes, Suely Ferreira, Garnelo, Luiza
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• ISSN: 1413-8123

The interactions among the ways of life and drink of youths indigenous of a populous place of Upper Rio Negro were analyzed through an ethnographic research. It was used a theoretical model that allowed to decompose and to articulate the social reality in different levels. It was observed that there was a multiplication of the situations in which is possible to drink, that are associated to mechanisms as much of belonging demarcation as of exposition of differences inter-group. Nowadays, youths insert themselves in multiple interaction networks. Through these networks they can create juvenile atmospheres of alcohol consumption, drink far away from the parents and buy industrialized drinks. With the introduction of the school and the abandonment of the initiation rituals, the youth status became uncertain, and it occurs in an ambiguous way the social norms of alcohol consumption, in a context in which there is no consensus in daily practice respect of the possible strategies to regulate juvenile drinking. Through this research, theoretical-methodological alternatives could be suggested to investigate the relationships that are established between the ways of life and the production of the health and disease, incorporating in this analysis the culture (and its transformation), the daily life (and its contradictions), the people (and its subjectivities). Key words South American Indians, Youth, Life's conditions, Alcohol consumption Atraves de uma pesquisa etnografica, analisaram-se as interacoes entre os atuais modos de vida e de beber de jovens indigenas de uma populosa localidade do Alto Rio Negro. Para tanto, se utilizou um modelo teorico que permitiu decompor e articular a realidade social em diferentes niveis. Observou-se que houve a multiplicacao das situacoes em que se bebe, que sao associadas a mecanismos tanto de demarcacao de pertencimento como de explicitacao de diferencas intergrupais. Atualmente, os jovens inserem-se em multiplas redes de interacao. Atraves delas, podem criar ambientes juvenis de consumo de alcool, beber longe dos pais e comprar bebidas industrializadas. Com a introducao da escola e o abandono dos rituais de iniciacao, o status do jovem tornou-se incerto e sobre ele incidem de forma ambigua as normas sociais de consumo de alcool, num contexto no qual nao ha consenso na pratica cotidiana a respeito das possiveis estrategias para regular o beber juvenil. Atraves desta pesquisa, puderam-se aventar alternativas teorico-metodologicas