A crise da produção algodoeira no município de Triunfo - PB na década de 1980.

Abstract

This monograph is the result of the study on the cotton-growing community of Triunfo (PB), as well as a set of personal experiences developed around this culture. I analyzed the establishment, rise and decline of cotton cultivation in this space in a specific time cut, the decade of 1980, with a special focus on the phenomenon of infestation of crops by the cotton boll weevil. For the production of this work I used the oral sources, interviewing farmers and traders who were directly involved with the cultivation and trade of cotton in Triunfo. The transcribed data were submitted to the analysis of content serving as the basis for the production of a valid discourse about the investigated object. We theoretically base our discussions on the paradigms of the new economic history and the new social history, taking the conceptual emphases of these approaches and interconnecting them, as well as the considerations on memory developed by intellectuals Maurice Halbwachs, Walter Benjamin and Paul Ricoeur.