Representations of Costum and Culture: The rural, the urban and the 'faxinal'

Authors

  • Ancelmo Schörner UNICENTRO/PR
  • José Adilçon Campigoto UNICENTRO/PR

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7976.2009v16n21p181

Abstract

This article is part of a study about conceptual applications, and representations of culture and usage abstracted from writings on the relationship between: rural and urban areas, the climate and behavior, the environment and nature, history and regional development. The texts that served as sources are writings on the state of Parana, especially, the Central South area, which contain the system “faxinais”. Note that the writings of the decades of 1960-70, when local leaders did several actions in order to assert the state's cultural identity, they adopted and sometimes they radicalized notions of culture and usage before used by the subjects involved in the movement of constitution the identity of Paraná, during the 1930’s and 1940’s. The view common to both periods is that the Paraná is the land of the progress, where the culture was represented as a product of the urban-industrial reality, while the common usage and custom is what is produced in the rural environment. We start from the hypothesis that the use of these terms, in a linear and “progressive” perspective, may lead to the depreciation of local realities and especially of the original people.

Author Biography

Ancelmo Schörner, UNICENTRO/PR

Possui doutorado em História pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2006); Mestrado em História pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (1997); Especialização pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (1994); Graduação em História pela Universidade da Região de Joinville (1990). Tem experiência em História Moderna e Contemporânea, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: Migração, Memória, Movimento Sindical Operário, Marginalização, Exclusão Social, Cidade e Meio Ambiente, Linguagem no Trabalho Científico e Metódos e Técnicas das Pesquisa; Educação do Trabalhador; História das Relações Trabalhistas e Sociais. Membro da ANPUH - Associação Nacional de História (Núcleo de Santa Catarina); Membro da ARIC - Association Internationale pour la Recherche Interculturelle; Membro da ABHO - Associação Brasileira de História Oral. Atualmente é professor do Departamento de História da Universidade Estadual Centro-Oeste do Paraná/UNICENTRO, campus de Irati, onde atua na Graduação e Pós-graduação.

Published

2010-01-18

How to Cite

Schörner, A., & Campigoto, J. A. (2010). Representations of Costum and Culture: The rural, the urban and the ’faxinal’. Esboços: Histories in Global Contexts, 16(21), 181–206. https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7976.2009v16n21p181

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