As relações familiares no seridó potiguar através dos inventários e partilhas: as famílias Sousa Castro, Cordeiro Nunes e Tavares (1788 – 1830)

Abstract

The family relationships, during the 18th and 19th centuries, were one of the main factors in the maintenance of private property. The main objective of this dissertation is to analyze the relationships of some families in the northern Rio Grande do Sul seridó, families such as the Dantas Correia, Lopes Galvão, Araújo Pereira, among others, with the family nuclei of Sousa Castro, Cordeiro Nunes and Tavares, showing their strategies maintenance of the property and its descendants, through inventories and divisions. Thus, our text is part of the discussions pointed out by the history and regionalities research line of the graduate program in history and it is supported by the discussion fostered by historian Diniz (2013), who discusses the concept of regionality through the sertão , as well as in the issues raised by Lewin (1993), in kinship relationships through the concept of kinship. In the same line, we also work with Teruya (1995), where she addresses consanguinity relationships and with Macêdo (2007), where there is a discussion about families in serido, focusing on the local elite and their issues. Methodologically, social relations, marriages and sponsorships are discussed through the observation of shared goods and through inventories of parish and civil records.