As representações sociais configurando as dinâmicas produtivas e socioculturais dos camponeses no semiárido paraibano: em busca de uma sustentabilidade

Abstract

The multiple dynamic production and socio-cultural activities developed by farmers in semi-arid, verified through field research, concerns a very complex set of social representations. This is a set of actions, moreover, a set of knowledge and practices, life style, especially those related to beliefs and myths inherent in climate, land, and animals under the peasants of Curimataú Ocidental. These representations are extremely important in understanding the strategies farmers, especially those relate to the process of coping with the semi-aridness.