The Acre-Purus and diversity Cultural Border (Brasil-Peru)

Abstract

The large hydrographic basins of Acre, Purús and Madre de Dios constitute true "hinges" between Peru, Brazil and Bolivia, where people are multilingual, bilingual or monolingual, speaking: Portuguese, Spanish, Quechua, Yaminawa or Manchineri-Yine, who Since the end of the 19th century, they have been “weaving” social and affective networks, thus giving rise to “cross-border” and “transnational” families. The objective of the research is to study border dynamics from cultural and social perspectives, to which economic and political variables can be incorporated. From matters related to the natural sciences and public health, the research approach is qualitative, the method is the dialectical hermeneutic and the technique is the bibliographic review. Coming to the conclusion that they know the others who are on the "other side", "in front", therefore, they feel part of said communities as a result of such interactions cultivated in part by the conditions imposed by the extractivism-mercantile rubber- shiringuero. Thus, within those border civil societies, the conjugation of being, identity (s), differences, from the person, local community; and even the local-international community. Meanwhile, the State, with the geo-political component, affirms “state identification”. Under those characteristics, the upper Acre border is a space for contact, encounter and mutual influence, where protection is not underestimated -by action of the State-, each one refining their own matrix of distinctiveness-community, where the curtain in the background, are the social and historical affinities that shape border cultures.