Dividir em Comum: Práticas costumeiras de transmissão do patrimônio familiar no Médio Jequitinhonha - MG

Abstract

The known inheritance lands in the Medium Jequitinhonha Valley were constituted by complex relations which, at the very beginning, articulated hegemonic processes and models of appropriation to the colonized local forms dedicated to the production of social territories (LITTLE, 2002). The exposure to expropriative historical experiences and the reduction of their territory, which can not find free lands to their expansion, shaped a frame of intense activity over the disposition and transmittion ofthe land, resulting in local successory customs which attempt to retain and perpetuate the patrimony for the safety and social reproduction of the families. This dissertation seeks to investigate the customary management practices of these territories. Doing so, we emphasize three types of strategies articulated in the inheritance system: marriage,migration and the transaction of rights. The ethnographic material suggests that the heritage can not be translated into a systematic code constructed of rules which are coherent, established and coercive. On the contrary, according to Wittgensteins approach (1994), the notion of rule is related to domain of practice, therefore it is incorporated by the agents, producing itself through the actions and choices made by them. Following the praxiologic knowledge of Bourdieus analysis (1983) we situate this study, examining the transmittion of the patrimony, in the Medium Jequitinhonha. The arrangements produced by the inheritance local system indicates that the consideração, the respect and the exclusion of the foreigner are, in this perspective, non-codified rules, which we call customs. They operate as tacit knowledge whichorients the choices and produces adjustment between the acts and local expectations. The hypothesis is that these strategies are based on practical (WITTGENSTEIN, 1994), customary (THOMPSON, 1998) and localized knowledge (ESCOBAR, 2005) whose expressions takes the form of ethical and affective dispositions which are articulated intheir genealogic discourse and collective memory. Both are registers that ensure the legitimacy of their territorial rights.