Micropolítica do terreno: família, espaço e reprodução social no Litoral do Piauí

Abstract

In this article I argue that the cerca and the kinship produce on the one hand, spatial border between neighbors and on the other hand, social unity between relatives in the village Pedra do Sal, located on the coast of Piaui. Through the cerca and the kinship the family seeks to ensure its social reproduction spatially referenced in a context of scarcity of “terreno”. The practices of reserving, selling, asking for, taking and retaking “terreno” make up what I will call the micropolitics of terreno, that is, the management of conflict and solidarity among relative, neighbor and friend around the appropriation of space.