“A terra amada, pequena e atraente”: da luta pela emancipação à construção da identidade poçodantense (1994-2016) .

Abstract

The objective of this work is to analyze the process of political emancipation of the municipality of Poço Dantas, in Paraíba, occurred in 1994, verifying its process of dismemberment of the city of Uiraúna. The research analyzed the construction of a poçodantense identity, which began to emerge in the historic course of the city's emergence and was established by the local population through various political and cultural processes and symbols. This study is fundamental for the knowledge of the process of construction and formatting of the municipality, identifying the political representatives who participated in this important period of the history of Poço Dantas, as well as the consolidation of a social identity that is assumed and experienced by its population today.