Redes sociais e dádiva: a construção dos vínculos sociais entre lideranças na Transamazônica-Pará.

Abstract

This study’s main objective is to examine compensation links and forms made in militant career of Transamazônica and Xingu leaders (Pará, Brazil) through social networks. Our analysis is focused on leaders who built his/her activism in social movements and they are designed in professional associations such as Agricultural Workers Federation (regional FETAGRI) and Public Education Workers Union (SINTEPP from Pará state). The period selected for this analysis since the 1980, culminating with the moment from reorganization of social movements Transamazônica e Xingu. We conceive such bonds, exchange and retribution systems as woven alliances, exchanges carried out and retribution ways over their trajectories as militants. This analysis is grounded in Marcel Mauss (1872-1950)’ donation concept, which has been and systematized in his essay Essai Sur le Don: Forme et Raison de l’Échange dans les Sociétés Archaiques, from 1925. The gift was chosen as theoretical perspective because it is endowed with analytical power able to explain one of this thesis’ most significant aspects: “covenant” and “link” notions present in the networks woven by such leaders. Methodology is based on leaders’ trajectory analysis linked to career concept. This concept aims to realize a procedural or sequential militant action model when it comes to social networks woven in leaders’ trajectories. In this research, we understand that such leaders’ militancy adherence, engagement, longevity and extent are based upon various recognition forms, mainly related to the moral obligation to return.