Arquitetura e história no sertão da Paraíba: um estudo das moradias rurais na cidade de Paulista(1820 A 1935).

Abstract

The research presented here is the result of a study about a set of houses built between the 1820s and the 1935s, in the mesoregion of the Paraíba sertão, corresponding to the political limits of the municipality of Paulista, in the same state. With visits undertaken on site to the six residences, we obtained as a result an analysis of their structures, paying attention to their internal and external characteristics, as well as photographic materials and other visual materials to assist in understanding the Textual elements. From this material originated a study that over three chapters discusses these houses as a result of the society that settled in this region, due to the occupation process of the Brazilian interior that brought with it the pastoral activity, migrated from the coast to the backlands. With the support of bibliography, the characteristics of the these houses from aspects of Brazilian society and, specifically, from the society which explain the presence, transformations and incorporation of elements observed in their structures. Finally, the situation of these houses in relation to the action exhausting of time and abandonment, and if, for the historical value to the country society as material symbols of their own formation, they could be the target of a policy of heritage preservation.