Saber e identidade dos agricultores familiares camponeses da Costa do Bica e Paredão, Piratini, RS

Abstract

The present research it is about a reflection on the form of peasant life and how the social reproduction of peasant farmers of the localities "Costa do Bica" and "Paredão", situated in the city of Piratini, RS, and inserted in the so called "Território do Alto Camaquã." The development of the research is supported in the phenomenological method with use the history of life and observation of the landscape, given that the present study is focused on the essence of being, in the experience of peasants life and how they perceive their place . The subjects in question are the result of miscegenation between indigenous (Tupi-Guarani and tapes), the Azores, Africans (former slaves) on an area that secularism was a frontier zone in dispute and a territory where predominant power of the grazing landowners in confrontation with peasant agriculture. It is present in the dispute over this territory covering the Pampa Biome and reproduce practices that allow the coexistence of man with nature ensuring the preservation of social and environmental characteristics. Among the results obtained it is clear that in this territory a new spatial transformation is underway with the implementation of forestry, which is changing the rural landscape with a predominance of family livestock farming in large monoculture plantations of trees. This pressure can be seen in decrease of the livestock of sheep and goats, and agriculture, which has been losing ground also for their own consumption, creating the invisibility of these peasants to the state and society. Can be verified that although the external pressure produced by the territorialization of the capital in the communities studied the peasants often deny their traditional knowledge, but noted that these are still latents in his memoirs, lifestyle and everyday practices. Before all, the peasant family of Costa do Bica and Paredão, despite adversity, follow resisting for feeling a part of that place.