TERRITORIALIDADE DE SITIANTES TRADICIONAIS NO ESTADO DE SÃO PAULO
TERRITORIALITY OF TRADITIONAL SITIANTES IN THE STATE OF SÃO PAULO

Cristina de Marco Santiago
2018 Mercator : Revista de Geografia da UFC  
Traditional farmers appropriate land and manage their territories through knowledge adapted to local ecosystems, adopting communal practices and customary rules linked to values common to the traditional way of life. The material and cultural reproduction of these groups is based on a strong condition of territorial autonomy on various scales, in a complex network of reciprocity and on the availability of land. From this perspective, through a case study, this work analyzes the process of
more » ... ormation of the territoriality of a group facing the emergence of contemporary society. Several adaptive strategies were found in economic, political, ecological, demographic and religious contexts. Values play a decisive role in the definition of all these. It was observed that the economic strategy is the first to be triggered, with significant losses to the traditional technological stock, including knowledge about the use and management of biodiversity. The present study is defined by a territorial approach. As a product of the society-nature relationship, from this perspective the territory is multiple, diverse and complex ; always and simultaneously involving time, a symbolic, cultural dimension, through a territorial identity attributed by social groups, as a form of 'symbolic control' over the space where they live (it is therefore also a form of appropriation), and a more concrete, political-disciplinary dimension: the appropriation and ordering of space as a form of domination and disciplinarization of individuals (HAESBAERT, 1997, p. 42).
doi:10.4215/rm2018.e17017 fatcat:zaczq2j22zacbldibfwjypkhwm