Terra e natureza: assentamentos rurais de Rio Maria (1974-2004)

Abstract

The subject of this dissertation are the Assentment Projects Expedito Ribeiro and Vale da Serra, localized in the city of Rio Maria, southest of Pará, establisheds by Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária (INCRA) some decades after the begin of migratory proccess to this region, proccess marked by unequal occupation of lands that brought in itself the fight and the challenge by the land between invasors and farmers and/or businessmen. In this way, start it from the perspective of a social history, regional in direction to local, linking this to bigger context, because the historical proccess are inter-relationed. So, made a time recort (1974-2004), because of this way there is the possibility of to walk by the occupation history, the fight by the land and by the life, and the way of familiar production established in these Assentment Projects before and after the insertion of public investiments in this area, and the relation that the familiar productors established with the nature during these decades.