PH 215 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Peon, Zona Da Mata, Fictive Kinship

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Public Health
• Course: PH 215
• Professor: Nancy Chin

Document Summary

The people of alto act within a dual ethic. The first one, ( mata ) the egalitarian and collectivist one, guides behavior toward family, kin, compadres, coworkers, and friends who are pobres like themselves. The second ethic ( paternalismo ), the hierarchical and dyadic, guides behavior toward bosses, superiors, and benefactors. This ethic locks the foresters into relations of servility, dependency, and loyalty to those who oppress and exploit them. patronage, self-colonizing dependencies. Money, food, medicines and relatives circulate among the moradores (squatters) of the. Alto do cruzeiro, in a ring of exchange that links the mata to the rua and the poor households of the alto to one another. Rua=the street; the new world of industrial commerce and capitalism in bom jesus. Migration and hunger are constant and ordinary here, and yet households will never deny hospitality to visiting or migrating kin, or deny help to a neighbor in dire need of food.