Laços de famílias e costumes de fé nas terras de Cabaceiras (1735-1770).

Abstract

The dissertation presented to the post graduation program at the Federal University of Campina Grande, aimed to discuss the issue involving family and religion in Colonial Parayba. Specifically discussed was having the same spatial area as the farm Cabaceiras, located in the Paraiba Cariri, because we work specifically with the family practices endogamous, in other words, marriage bond constructed from close blood ties and realize that this family model was identified quite significant in the analyses space. The time frame of this work begins in 1735 and extends until 1770, although we have worked this periodization so that it more flexible, in order that the genealogical research realized that endogamous practices have been strengthened over almost the entire XIX century. This analyses sought also to problematize how the relationships/ Church influenced the design and redesign the daily practices of that community and how so that these families used the church for legitimating of the colonial project and its own social-references cultural. In an analyses of daily life and religious sensitivity discussed how these families have appropriated Roman Catholic beliefs to build a family identity mirrored in a model of family enrolled in Catholicism, as, for example, the place occupied by patron saints, specially Jesus, Mary and Joseph, and that these images had symbolic power in the formation of subjectivities of these families. Finally our work was focused on an analysis of family and religion taking as theoretical and methodological discussions that guide the so-called Cultural History.