The objective of the text is to understand how collective experiences of women in the use of the goods provided by the Amazon forest express other ways of inhabiting, living together and re-existing. It explores from the collective experience of women babaçu coconut breakers the tensions between territorial dynamics and the other ontologies of living together, of inhabiting body-territories and of care, which configure ways of feeling and thinking in opposition to the economic-reifying rationality of the modern development project on that space.