O pastoreio comunitário em Lage das Aroeiras: trabalho, sociabilidades, desafios – 1970 a 2007

Abstract

The fund is a community pasture form of land use, especially for extensive grazing of animals, practiced primarily in northeastern Bahia. Its origin is related to the occupation of the hinterland for extensive cattle and their problems with regard to the security of land tenure, dating back to the Land Act 1850 and subsequent legislation that does not bolster its form of land use. This paper discusses the way of life of the bottom of the pasture Lagedas Aroeiras, municipality of Uauá community - BA, through community grazing, labor relations and sociability in the community and how the actions of the state with the implementation of policies developmental regionalizantes during the military dictatorship, contributed to the process of commodification of their lands, emphasizing the resistance to this commercialization through community organization and partnership and joint the community down to ensure that their way of living and create still exist. Community land use also constitutes as an instrument of resistance to the capitalist system that emphasizes individuality and, above all, private property as production and economic development strategy. But the regularization of their land, so that resistance to capitalism can continue to exist is necessary because without this, the continuity of the fund is threatened pasture.