Local communities of the Araucaria Forest in Santa Catarina: Territoriality and memory

Authors

  • Marlon Brandt Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.
  • Eunice Sueli Nodari Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Abstract

Th is article discusses the construction of a territoriality by the Caboclo (peasants of mixed ancestry) population living in the Araucaria Forest in Santa Catarina State, using their social, spatial and economic practices as factors of identifi cation, defense and strength legitimated by memory. Th is territoriality started to lose its structure with the insertion of a new socio-spatial dynamics represented by the private appropriation of land, colonization and deforestation.


Key words: territoriality, memory, local communities, Caboclos.

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Published

2011-05-04

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 1 (2011): January/April

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