Um estudo sobre uma experiência rural associativa: o processo de participação coletiva. Campo Limpo - Pará, 2003-2007

Abstract

The objective of this research, a case study, is to know and to analyze a sociable rural experience of culture of the priprioca, as well as the process of collective participation, in the small village of Campo Limpo, in the city of Santo Antonio do Tauá, in the State of Pará, from 2003 to 2007. The purpose to carry out this study appeared due to the changes, that have been occurring at Campo Limpo, with the installation of some economic projects for the extraction of the Priprioca, of the Curauá, of the Nim and of other cultures focused on export. The object of the present study is the collective participation and the sociability of a group constituted of 03 (three) families with blood ties, accomplishing 15 (fifteen) associates for the planting of priprioca. The raised hypothesis recognizes that the collective participation has been internally created in the intra and inter familiar relationships, as well as externally through the organization of the Rural Producers Association Rancho Fundo , created by the group, as instrument of management and realization of culture and commercialization of the priprioca. The idea has been centered in the fact of knowing if this experience has been making possible and resulting in collective participation, and what is the meaning of this collective participation in the construction of the notion of citizenship and rights for the associates. Thus, the nature of the research is qualitative, having, as methodological procedures, the bibliographic survey, the documentary research, the local observation, the preliminary contacts, the ethnographic study, the use of the field diary, the photographic register, and the achievement of semi-structured interviews with oriented topics. The research has disclosed, as results, that the associated work has contributed for strengthening the ties, and also has been stimulating the conquer of the permanence, mainly of young people in the rural area. In this investigation, the land appears in a relationship of respect, that enhances values, like simplicity, which can be maintained through time, because it is based on respect to life. In this sense, the association has been useful as a way to deal with the lack of land and material resources. The participation of the people has been expressed as a learning process, that has been occurring in the internal and external practical activities, being able to direct itself to a future sustainable local development