Tradição, memória e direitos em uma comunidade de quebradeiras de coco babaçu: o caso do povoado Centrinho do Acrísio em Lago do Junco, Maranhão

Abstract

The tradition of babassu nut breaker communities, emanated from both family farming and and breaking of the coconut, is affected and affects several factors, including the various legal instruments over time. The reproductive strategies of these communities and the renewal of their tradition required the redefinition of legal instruments around the regularization and private property. This dissertation presents the complex relationship developed between the community called Centrinho do Acrísio, in the municipality of Lago do Junco, Maranhão, and the State, especially given the legal means of access to land. This study investigates the trajectory of adaptation, transformation and redefinition of the different aspects of this traditional babassu nut breakers community. These processes highlight the shortcomings of monistic and conservative version of Brazilian law, and gives a critical element to the imbalance between positive right and the right that is intended to be a law. No more than that, the renewal of the traditional aspects occurs when communities take on new identities and organizational forms in which conquering the new practice rights