BEYOND THE FENCES: THE MEANING OF BACKYARD IN ADNRÉ DO MATO DENTRO, SANTA BÁRBARA - MG

• Main Authors: Vanessa Dias de, Virgínia de Lima
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Programa de Pós-graduação em Geografia (PPGEO) 2018-06-01
• Series: GeoNordeste
• Subjects: to habit; imaginary; being-that-lives; yard
• Online Access: https://seer.ufs.br/index.php/geonordeste/article/view/8658/pdf
• ISSN: 1518-6059; 2318-2695

This paper results from the admission of the subject and object as a living, unitary organism. Although it seems like reductionism to objectify the Earth and its characters - animate and inanimate – it fits here to conceive it as an artefact of greed, curiosity and concern for the researcher. Here, the coveted object assumes the failed form of the itabirites - and sometimes formed in a wave shape form on the dolomites - of the Serra do Gandarela, more precisely the André do Mato Dentro, Santa Bárbara-MG. Although it’s inserted in Belo Horizonte’s metropolitan zone, there, the dance of the bees in the flowering time still produces honey; the main stream, Maria Casimira, still meanders through the houses; bats, crickets and frogs still orchestrate the Sunday Mass. Considered subaltern by the technique’s and capital’s eyes, the community experiences threats of propagation of the capitalist logic in their built territory. We seek to discuss the notion of yard in this plot, and the concepts of identity, place, and imagination. The basic elucidative movement - exposed by the field experience - consisted in the perception that the yard in André do Mato Dentro extrapolates the fences of the dwelling, of the garden and of the orchard, to embrace the crests, the valleys, the watercourses, the legends, constituents of that folk’s symbolic system.