Nas trilhas da resistência cotidiana: o protagonismo exercitado pelos camponeses no cariri paraibano (1900-1950).

Abstract

The Cariri of Paraíba, according to the records of donations of land grants, has been busy in the early eighteenth century, by people who aimed to establish cattle ranches. Even not be linked, only the source documents that recorded the allotments, you can see that the occupation of the region was being given, also, for people without land, slaves and former slaves to the area they went in search of land enables them to subsistence. These people in constant clashes with the rural elite of the region were being established and gave rise to regional peasantry. This study aims to analyze the practices of everyday resistance, exercised by the peasantry, against the practices of domination of the rural elite in the West Cariri of Paraíba, in the period 1900 to 1950. For this analysis, we used as a source of research documents of the Catholic Church, registry documents, manuscripts of local people, interviews, and also publications by people who had tried to report the conflicts witnessed at the time, both among the rural elite and among the elite and the peasants. The analysis of these sources has enabled us to see tracks and signs the forms in which they gave the social relations between the rural elite and the peasants, thus benefit the analysis of relations of domination and resistance played out by peasants. The analysis carried out showed that farmers facing the same practices of domination of the rural elite, developed according to their possibilities, everyday strategies of resistance.