Ressignificações socioculturais nas comunidades tradicionais do Salgado e Pedra Lisa em Quirinópolis (GO)

Abstract

This work presents the peasant communities of Salgado and Pedra Lisa, inserted among the 21 regions of the municipality of Quirinópolis, with the origin of their family nucleus by the pioneers of the region, period of the genesis of Quirinópolis, when it was still a district of Rio Verde. For decades, a local peasant identity was generated, with family farming and well-being with nature, however, such characteristics were re-signified with the passing of the stages of agricultural development in the Brazilian Midwest. In view of this, a survey of the historical agricultural context of the Midwest region was carried out, as well as the specific context of Quirinópolis, directly impacted by the monocultures of soy and the recent sugar cane, aiming to present the communities, having all the basis of their rural history, and how it resignified with the capitalist advance in the countryside. For the good development of the research, a wide bibliographic base was used, to have the theoretical basis of the agricultural development process, as well as local authors, making it possible to deepen the knowledge of the peasant communities, specifically those of Salgado and Pedra Lisa, from the research empirical with interviews and photographic documentation, presenting them from their inception to the present day. After the research, it was observed that, through agricultural mechanization, and the recent sugarcane monoculture, these communities were strongly transformed, their roots metamorphosed and their current situation surrounded by capitalist advancement. Pioneer practices fell into disuse with the modernization of the countryside, but peasant production remains the main source of income for families, mainly due to the contributions of cooperatives, which enabled peasants to compete in the local market with the production of milk and vegetables.