SABER E IDENTIDADE DOS AGRICULTORES FAMILIARES CAMPONESES DE COSTA DO BICA E PAREDÃO, PIRATINI (RS)

Abstract

The present research it is about a reflection on the form of peasant life and how the social reproduction of peasant farmers of the localities Costa do Bica and Paredao, situated in the city of Piratini (RS), and inserted in the Territorio do Alto Camaqua. The development of the research is supported in the phenomenological method with use the history of life and observation of the landscape. The subjects in question are the result of miscegenation between indigenous (Tupi-Guarani and tape), the Azores, Africans (former slaves) on an area that secularism was a frontier zone in dispute and a territory where predominant power of the grazing landowners in confrontation with peasant agriculture. It is present in the dispute over this territory covering the Pampa biome and reproduce practices that allow the coexistence of man with nature ensuring the preservation of social and environmental characteristics. Among the results obtained it is clear that in this territory a new spatial transformation is underway with the implementation of forestry, which is changing the rural landscape with a predominance of family livestock farming in large monoculture plantations of trees. This pressure can be seen in decrease of the livestock of sheep and goats, and agriculture, which has been losing ground also for their own consumption, creating the invisibility of these peasants to the state and society. Can be verified that although the external pressure produced by the territorialization of the capital and the invisibility of these peasants, they continue to resist, since their traditional knowledge remain latent in his memoirs, way of life and everyday practices.