SILVA, Tadeu Pereira da.
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.
