Entre a “força da terra" e a “indústria do homem”: algodão, natureza e cultura no Ceará dos oitocentos

• Ano de defesa: 2018
• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Jonatas Jonas Silva dos
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Algodão; Corpo; Cultura; Natureza; Nature
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/39616

This research seeks to investigate how certain transformations in the geographical environment are related to changes in social relations of production and inner perception of time by cotton farmers in Ceará, in the mid-nineteenth century. From some reflections of Environmental History, field marked by dialogue between various disciplines and branches of knowledge, seeks to analyze some historical processes lived in the context of the war of American Secession (1861-1865), on the called cearense cotton ‘boon’ second . Fleeing analyzes that take the reality closed in solely economic or political aspects, as well as dualistic views that oppose the "modernization" in the face of "tradition", an inert nature that simply suffers the action of man, the aim is to study social relations in the cotton industry in its environmental complexity, whose prospect is markedly held in the various relationships between nature and society. Therefore, the objective is to analyze and understand possible temporal tensions in socially lived reality of farmers in the face of capitalist demands, with their change projects in cotton cultivation facing higher production growth, defense of modern techniques and technologies and the defense of footwear ideal in profit and its relevant changes in the natural world. In this sense, through various traces, as reports Province of Presidents; travelers' accounts; political memories and men of 'science'; dictionaries; newspapers; inventories; among others; tries to rehearse a composition, a historical interpretation, which understands some relationships between technical, cotton cultivation and new sensibilities in the daily life of farmers in view of their experiences with nature, their ways of understanding and notation of the time in their daily work. In this way, we assume that nature transformed expresses culture and the study of some temporal tensions in cotton are strongly linked to the ways in which these men were changed and modified through complex transactions between society and nature.