Ler História 40/2001

South Lands: Ethnography and Social History

Fátima Sá , Melo Ferreira and Rui Santos
Introduction

Articles

Filipe Themudo Barata, Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros, Fernando Branco Correia, Hermenegildo Fernandes, Manuela Santos Silva and Hermínia Vasconcelos Vilar
Social elite and appropriation of the Além Tejo territory in Middle Age

Helder A. Fonseca and Rui Santos
Three centuries of change in the agrarian sector of Alentejo: the region of Évora (XVII-XIX centuries)

Ana Cardoso de Matos
The woollen manufacture in Alentejo (since the end of the XVIII century to the end of the XIX century)

Paula Godinho
Community, classes and collectivity in Southern Portugal (Couço, 1958-1962)

João Leal
Orlando Ribeiro, Jorge Dias e José Cutileiro: images of Mediterranean Portugal

Brief Article

Manuel Baiôa and Paulo Silva Fernandes
Agrarian elites and public action: the Alentejo between 1800 and 1930

Homage to Mariano Feio

Critique and Debate

Pedro Cardim
Favourites, palatial intrigue and political fight in the beginning of XVII century. About a recent book of Antonio Feros

Review Essays

Scientific Actuality

Abstracts

Filipe Themudo Barata, Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros, Fernando Branco Correia, Hermenegildo Fernandes, Manuela Santos Silva and Hermínia Vasconcelos Vilar
Social élite and appropriation of the Além Tejo territory in Middle Age

This article's purpose is to stress the social processes diversity of the territory occupation and the land appropriation after the Reconquest. Stressing the situational diversity, authors show how spatial and social articulations have been being built and which are structural of the Portuguese medieval society. More than achieving conclusions, we intend to observe behaviours. First how, young and old oligarchies domineer rural inland territory from the urban centres. Then, how the oldest lordly powers kept a constant attention to their patrimony towards the urban nucleus and in the peri-urban spaces. Finally, by the Moorish community observation, we intend to see how a strong and constant pressure was made to remove the losers of the Reconquest from the land possession.

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Helder A. Fonseca and Rui Santos
Three centuries of change in the agrarian sector of Alentejo: the region of Évora (XVII-XIX centuries)

This paper addresses the emergence of the model of large landownership and farming in the southern Portuguese province of Alentejo, currently designated as latifúndio. It describes the long-term process in the region of Évora, highlighting the economic and institutional mechanisms that drove it and trying to understand the actors' strategies in their conjunctural contexts. We argue that after the long XVII century crisis the process underwent two phases until the liberal land reform: 1) concentration of tenures in the land-leasing market and emergence of the large farms (XVIII century); 2) property transfer, consolidation of large farm landownership and emergence of the modern agrarian model (1774 to 1860).

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Ana Cardoso de Matos
The woollen manufacture in Alentejo (since the end of the XVIII century to the end of the XIX century)

The Alentejo region is often considered as a predominantly agricultural region where industry has always taken the second place. However, in Évora and Portalegre districts the woollen production, done by home factory or by the manufacturing industry, took an important role by the end of the XVIII and the XIX centuries. In this study, we intend to, on one hand, analyse the organisational way and the evolution of the home factory industry, trying to explain the reasons of its decrease. On the other hand, we try to explain the context of the appearance and development of the manufacturing industry, which during the major part of the XIX century was dominated by the Larcher's family.

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Paula Godinho
Community, classes and collectivity in Southern Portugal (Couço, 1958-1962)

On a background of social classes, I examine the limits of community and collectivity concepts on a rural context in southern Portugal, parish of Couço, district of Santarém, 1958-1962. Those classes, rest on the access to the land and are expressed on the dichotomy we/them, that lodge farm workers in one of the extremes, and the landowners on the other. Over this dichotomy yet another one transpires, between the collective of resistance - which prepared contentious situations against landowners and dictatorship regime - and the supporters of Salazar's regime.

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João Leal
Orlando Ribeiro, Jorge Dias e José Cutileiro: images of Mediterranean Portugal

This article focuses on the different images of Mediterranean Portugal developed by three important Portuguese social scientist of the XX century: the geographer Orlando Ribeiro, the ethnologist Jorge Dias and the social anthropologist José Cutileiro. The article argues that these different images stem from different ideological attitudes toward the countryside, ranging from pastoral to counter-pastoral, and are also related to different ways of addressing the links between the countryside and national identity.

Índices (números 30 a 40)

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