Transamazonic Immigrants: perceptions of the civil-military governmental regime in the political context of 1970. “Memories of three immigrants about the Brazilian Amazon”

Abstract

This article proposes a reflection on the conceptions concerning the way of living and understanding the civil-military dictatorship in the 70s, particularly in the view of three pioneer migrants, residents of one of the first village inaugurated on the Transamazon Highway and having as a period historical context of the construction of the road in the period of the Civil-Military dictatorship regime. The methodology applied to the proposal and hypothesis resulted in the perception that there is, in this corpus, a peculiar set of “positive” discourses that clearly clash with what is observed in socio-historical perceptions and even in the National or “official memory” or that you have left over the mentioned period. It was concluded that, among other factors, not only the many and deep difficulties of a distant past, but also the absence of a group of belonging together with the estrangement of its present time and the possession of land provoked, in the delimited social actors, an euphemistic-self-absorbed view of everything that has passed since that time with them.