CITY-COUNTRYSIDE RELATIONSHIP: activities and rural customs under a high voltage network at Campina Grande-PB

Abstract

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/geouerj.2013.6817

This article aimed at evidencing the existence of rural activities inside the urban perimeter of Campina Grande and showing the importance of these activities in the daily life of those who practice them. Thus, it had the purpose of understanding how the rural activities are maintained and recreated in non-inhabited areas in the city. For the analysis we selected as a space the area under a high voltage network and among the existing rural activities we chose the cattle breeding, as they are predominant. Besides, we prioritized as methodological procedures: the field work, the observations and the interviews. Lastly, it was verified that the rural practices in the city consisted of “tactics” found by the people, usually migrants, in order to live in the city, something which is conceived a priori for the performance of secondary and tertiary activities. Furthermore, the permanence of the activities and the rural customs in the city occurs not only due to an economic need, but, above all, in function of the desire and the pleasure of living in a way similar to that of the rural life.