Um estudo descritivo das brincadeiras em uma comunidade ribeirinha amazônica

Play is a universal phenomenon which has peculiar aspects which are infl uenced by elements of the physical, social, and cultural environments by the characteristics of children. These aspects allow us to 1 Endereço para correspondência: Conjunto Cidade Nova V, Travessa WE-29, 622, Coqueiro, Ananindeua, PA, Brasil 67133-120. E-mail: danireispara@yahoo.com.br, julia.roffe@hotmail.com, symon.ufpa@gmail.com, leilassef@gmail.com e farp1304@gmail.com Reis, D. C., Borges, J. A. R., Silva, S. S. C., Mendes, L. S. A., Pontes, F A. R. 746 understand the joke as a product and producer of human development, because it is through it that the individual experiences in a safe way, behaviors that, in normal situations, ie, outside the play context, could have aversive social consequences. The objective of this study was to describe the Amazonian riverine games. Participated in the study 66 children and adolescents living in the community Araraiana river, whose age is between 0 and 18 years, including 32 boys and 34 girls. We used the sociodemographic schedule (ISD) and the Inventory of Spontaneous Play (IEB). The data revealed a diversity of games: a symbolic play, turbulent / agonistic play, games with rules, locomotor play, play with objects and animals and joke construction. The results demonstrate that the jokes express, mostly day to day community as building toys boat and shotgun situations with domestic issues (kitchen, doll) and linked to livelihood such as fi shing, canoeing lead, build cage. Therefore, the games generally portray specifi c aspects of the physical, social and cultural environment of childhood in the riverside community studied.