Author:

• Maximiliano Loiola Ponte de Souza - Souza, MLP - Manaus, Amazonas - Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz - <maximiliano@amazonia.fiocruz.br>

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Abstract:

Through an ethnographic research, were analyzed the interactions among the ways of life and drink of youths indigenous of a populous place of Upper Rio Negro. For so much 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 REPLACE themselves in multiple interaction networks. Through them, they can create juvenile atmospheres of consumption of alcohol, drink far away from the parents and buy drunk industrialized. With the introduction of the school and the abandonment of the initiation rituals, the youth's status became uncertain, and on him happens in an ambiguous way the social norms of consumption of alcohol, in a context in which there is no consensus in practice daily respect of the possible strategies to regulate drinking juvenile. Through this research, theoretical-methodological alternatives could be fanned to investigate the relationships that settle down between the ways of life and the production of the health and disease, incorporating in this analysis the culture, the daily life, the people, and their subjectivities.
South American Indians; youth, life’s conditions, alcohol consumption

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