Banca de DEFESA: RAIMUNDA FRANCINETE DE SOUZA

THE SOCIAL ROLE OF BODEGAS IN THE URBAN PERIPHERY OF CAICÓ IN THE 1980s

bodegas; Contemporary Sertões; memory; Social History; Material Culture.

The present dissertation work approach the social role of bodegas in the urban periphery of Caicó in the 1980s, with the aim of understanding how these small businesses collaborated socially and economically in the lives of residents of the João XXIII neighborhood in this period, and identify the factors that contribute to the “disappearance” of old bodegas in the sertão of Caicó. The evidenced object  involves social, cultural, political and economic aspects from a contemporary perspective, wherefore, we search in Social History and Material Culture, the necessary fundamentals to build the historiography of Caicó bodegas, relating the concept of “contemporary sertões'' to the outskirts of Caicó. Regarding methodological guidelines, we used Oral History, Quantitative History and Discourse Analysis in the constitution and treatment of research sources, in a quantitative, qualitative and comparative approach. The main sources were oral narratives, made up of interviews with bodegueiros and fregueses from the João XXIII neighborhood. Secondary sources consist of articles from the newspapers O Poti (RN) and Diário de Natal in the 1980s and administrative documents. The results indicate that the bodegas of the past were commercial places that sold the merchandise at the retail and on credited in the notebook,  facilitating the life for many sertanejos, as well as being places of sociability, meetings, leisure in spaces of social segregation, on urban outskirts Brazilians. Furthermore, its “disappearance” is related with the evolution of “technique” and this is in function of the “globalization” of capital.