Modos de vida tradicionais e campesinato: figuras do agrário norte mineiro

Abstract

The discussion on the Agrarian Question in Brazil involves not only the struggle for land, but above all the legitimacy of the subjects of the Brazilian countryside, either by the approximation between the countryside and the city promoted by capital or by the increasingly forceful insertion of this capital into the environment agrarian. However, in theory, the debate about the subjects of the field is directed in the proposal of its proletarianization or the industrialization of the agrarian. In the field itself, one observes the materialization of rural traditionalities and the restructuring of the peasantry, which strengthens and recreates itself in the conflict of capital itself. The present study aimed to identify evidence of the presence of traditional ways of life and peasantry in the northern region of the State of Minas Gerais. It is a case study carried out in a rural community located in the northern region of Mineira in the year 2009. Traditional ways of life were observed, especially related to the peasantry, evidencing the traditionally transmitted knowledge, such as the land management, husbandry, peasant economic management, and other strategies that make up the complexity of the peasant condition. These ways of life are also observed in other rural studies carried out in different parts of the Brazilian territory. The results show that resilience is a hallmark of the social subjects treated here, the capacity to resist and reproduce in the environment conducive to the restructuring of capital is what leads them to recognize them as subjects of transformation of the Brazilian countryside and triggers of debates each the Agrarian Question and itsdimensions.