“Uma questão do sentir”: memórias e sensibilidades das vivências cotidianas com a seca, em face às experiências dos horebenses Monte Horebe – PB (1958-1985).

Abstract

The present research problematizes the daily experiences of residents of the rural area of the city of Monte Horebe (PB) from 1958 to 1985. As this study reveals the social experience of “simple men”, it contributes to thinking about the theme of droughts beyond causeeffect relationships. In this text we defend the perspective that “the ordinary man” breaks the rules that are socially imposed and invents his daily life with customs, beliefs and own practices that validate his ways of doing. Through the methodology of Oral History we present some of the “arts of doing” in the daily contact with droughts, such as the elements of faith, popular knowledge and experiences, from the 1960s, with work on the Emergency Fronts. For the construction of this work we used oral sources as the main point of reflection and analysis, these were produced from interviews conducted with residents of the rural area of the city Monte Horebe. The media in which orality presented us with some elements that had greater repercussion, such as the performance of the public authorities, works and actions of the peasants, we sought to compile this information with those contained in primary sources that were produced in the temporal and spatial cutout of the research, so we found it convenient to use minutes of the session of the municipal legislature in the period from 1962 to 1985 and articles of the Newspaper of Brazil from 1970 to 1879 and from 1980 to 1989.