A morte do sertÃo antigo no seridÃ: o desmoronamento das fazendas agropecuaristas em Caicà e FlorÃnia. (1970-90) / The death of the old inland area in the seridà region: the collapse of the farming and cattle raising in Caicà and FlorÃnia (1970 â 90)

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2003

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The reconstitution of the collapse from the farming and cattle raising from the municipal districts of Caicà and FlorÃnia, in the potiguar Seridà region, in the 70Âs and 90Âs â objective of this research â event that represented structurelessness of the old rural society in the region, was based upon the history seen from below. Its achievement reckoned upon the declarations of the principal personages who, in the respective municipal districts studied, lived deeply in colored cinemascope the displeasure of watching their old way of life to succumb in durable turbulences, caused by challenges coming from other temporal dimension. Modernization demanded change of mentality, the routine of another work time; alterations that tradition resisted not proposing to incorporate them. Its socio-cultural burden was bigger than the remodeling force of the modern time. It triumphed over the destruction caused by the misfortune of the conjugation of perverse factors like the competitive market, maybe the faustian apparition of the ornit and the psychological effects of the sindical ideology out of the context. The oral sources and the newspapers were the main digging sites of this work, besides a strong support from different sources and from the study of a wide bibliography on the theme. The composition of the narrative took a form of a divided text in an introduction, where are exposed theoretical and methodological signs from the taskwork, its objectives and the temporal and spatial indentures; followed by entitled chapter historical registers of the formation of the old inland area in the Seridà region, where, through the classical works, demarcate the frontiers of the old rural society in formation; in the following, there is another chapter, entitled the invention of tradition in the Seridà region; we distinguish in it, especially the ethnic fight and the cultural miscegenation of the white with the Indian and with the black; a third chapter written from the courting of tradition, demonstrating the socio-economics dynamics from the inland area society in the cotton growing zone; and, to finish, the chapter that narrates the collapse of rural life of the people from FlorÃnia and caicÃ, central theme of this research. The main point on which came up the effort of comprehension and reconstitution of the phenomenon studied here was the dialectic relation between the resisting elements of tradition and and the changing force of modernity, taking such occurrence as life and death confrontation between opposing and contradicting values. From this encounter resulted the collapse of the old rural society of the municipal districts investigated, opening to the characters from this texture a world of new possibilities and failures

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agropecuÃria historia tradicionalismo rio grande do norte costumes cultura popular usos sociedade patriarcal folclore seridÃ

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