SULISTAS EM MINEIROS: A RECRIAÇÃO DA IDENTIDADE

Abstract

This dissertation has as object of analysis the southern immigration that happens in Mineiros-Go., from a revealing look about the recreation of its identity, becoming them gauchos in goianas lands. Southerners proceeding from colonies of Italian europeans and german immigrants, took in Mineiros the culture of the gaucho traditionalism, didn't adored in their origin space. The analysis searches the dynamics of the process that motivated the identity recreation, in a process of re-territory developed from the opposition to the stablished generating prejudice and stigmas of both parts. As well as, realize the re-reading that they carried out about the gaucho culture, offering it new shades, because when they recreate their identity recognizing them as gauchos, they also recreated the gaucha culture. The investigation searches to answer, mainly, one question: what reasons motivated the southern phenomenon to became them gauchos in Mineiros? After a contextualization of the rio-grandense reality identifying the European immigrant and gaucha culture, they investigate the reasons of the immigration to Goiás. To continue, it points out the difficulties of the southern related to the adaptability and the challenge of living with the stablished one and create your own space. In search of self-assertation in a space that had an organized society the southerners reorganize themselves to achieve grupal cohesion reorganizing their own identity. To achieve the proposed goals we took as theorical reference the model of analysis of Norbert Elias: Stablisheds and Outsiders, besides of identity studies about the concepts of identity from Hall, Castells, Hobsbawm, Alburquerque Junior, among others. Became necessary develop studies about the formation of prejudice, stigmas and disputes of power. The synthesis of the relation stablisheds and outsiders, conclude the analysis, showing Mineiros before and after the outsiders (southerners) and the persistence of the dispute in the politic field, where the reasons of formulating the southerners new identity serve as cause and effect.