The "displaced" position of women is a constitutive feature of female social experience in the Upper Rio Negro, in contrast to the male position which is centred on the notion of "belonging". Starting from this premise, the article reflects on the social experience of Indigenous women who live in the city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, the principal urban centre in the Upper Rio Negro basin. Through ethnographic analysis, it explores how marriages with white men in the city contribute to the process of transforming female social experience.
Anthropology; Ethnology; Northwest Amazonia; Gender; City