O GRÃO E O CASCO: representações e práticas da colonização no sul do Maranhão na primeira metade do século XIX.

Abstract

this study tried to verify, the process of colonization of Maranhão, in the first half of the 19th century, how practices and representations of the social world by its internal logic have been negotiated to influence the choices as regards the model of, the political system of the province. Studied the formation of North and South Maranhão, when the issue was closely more separatist articulated at that moment in two episodes: in the struggles of independence and Balaiada, as troubleshooting decisive in shaping social reality from southern state. To perform this study used as theoretical contribution of representations, approaches that were developed by historians, sociologists and psychologists who underscore the articulation between elements of subjectivity of actors and social structures. In this sense, the study has come to a conclusion that the separatist stance, during that period, only make meanings when they are examined within a network of representations and practices shared between Society and State, touched by all the relationships that are established and operated between them.