Práticas de Lazer e Sociabilidade na Belém do Pará dos Anos de 1920

This study aims to investigate the leisure and sociability practices in the city of Belem - PA in the 1920s, highlighting the practices, spaces, subjects and meanings of leisure and sociability of a period in which the capital of Para enjoyed a set of transformations resulting from the economy of rubber. The research is of a historical, documentary nature and in the light of Cultural History. The documentary sources were the printouts “A Semana: Revista Illustrada” and “Belem Nova”. The analysis of the sources showed that the manifestations of leisure and sociability were experienced at parties, festivals, clubs, theaters, cinemas and on walks in the middle of nature by the elite as entertainment and approximation with European values; popular expressions of leisure were found in a smaller number in these magazines, distanced themselves from the refined private spaces of the city and appeared with a sense of participation, fun and celebration of popular culture.