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Abstract
This work aims to present the way of life of a peasant social group and its
history of constant government interventions. This community, called Canudos, is located
in Bahia State, in the Médio São Francisco area. The social actors to which we refer move
within pluriactive activities (farm work and small-scale fishing are the most important),
and present unique sociabilities, familistic and identitary relations. We have verified that
this distinctiveness, which is based mainly on the precedence of the several family groups,
generate internal conflicts that become powerful and make it difficult for the government
to implement intervention projects. This article intends to analyze this practice and
contradictions of this social process. Data were collected from a methodological fusion
between the technique of in-depth case study and diagnosis analysis of the land systems.