PODER E FAMÍLIA: O DOMÍNIO POLÍTICO DE HERÁCLITO CAVALCANTI EM ITABAIANA DURANTE A PRIMEIRA REPÚBLICA (1903-1915)

Abstract

This article, presented as a Course Completion Work, emerged from the research carried out in the Scientific Initiation Project, under the guidance of Professor Dr. Martinho Guedes dos Santos Neto, whose main objective was to analyze and identify the political elites in the municipality of Itabaiana and their importance in the political history of the State of Paraíba, either through their economic potential, or through the power relations between local groups, all they were led by judge Heráclito Cavalcanti Carneiro Monteiro, who, during the command of the Alvarist oligarchy in the state, used strategies to expand his influence in the agreste, marsh and coastal regions, among them: the formation of alliances through marriage with some of the main political leaders of the state of Paraíba during the First Republic (1889-1930), such as the Velloso Borges, the Pereira Borges, the Ribeiro Coutinho and the Cunha Lima. This research presents and discusses the political domain from references such as RODRIGUES, (1989); LEWIN, (1993); BOURDIEU, (2007) and MONTEIRO (2017), respectively. The political composition of Heráclito Cavalcanti is established through the formation of political, family and intellectual capital, thus enabling his political hegemony in some municipalities in the State of Paraíba, among them, Itabaiana, the largest center of his political power until 1915.