Sesmarias, registros cartoriais e alquimistas: apropriação e grilagem de terras no Oeste do Pará
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2023-08-31Autor
http://lattes.cnpq.br/7883370672022674
VIEGAS, Luiz Antonio Melo
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The object of study of this qualitative research is the formation of private ownership of land
constituted on the margin of legality, in which the subject of law uses letters of sesmarias to
legitimize the private domain over a certain fraction of the territory. The empirical geographical
area of investigation is the West of Pará, which is why the following questions were raised:
How are land grabbing strategies presented through the use of sesmarias letters? How do the
processes and relations of the production of a notary alchemy occur that transform papers
without legal value into documents translating domain? How do the investigations of evidence
of illegalities occur? The general objective of the research is to analyze how land grabbing
strategies are presented through the use of sesmarias letters. Specifically, the research has the
following objectives: to identify the theoretical categories related to the formation process of
private land ownership; map the sesmarias issued in the colonial period; understand the process
of discrimination and collection of federal and state public lands, as well as confirm the location
of sesmarias in areas collected by the federal and state governments; and, to characterize cases
of properties that have evidence of land grabbing sustained in letters of sesmarias. Based on the
dialectical method, articulated by historical materialism, and based on the Theory of Creation
and Re-creation of the Peasantry and Landholdings, the research procedures followed the
following path: state of the question, analysis of documents and case studies. As a result, the
investigation identified: 1) the issuance of 72 (seventy-two) sesmarial grants; and, 2) the
existence of 50 (fifty) rural properties with signs of land grabbing supported by sesmarias
letters. In relation to properties with signs of land grabbing, they have an area ofaround 224,000
(two hundred and twenty-four thousand) hectares, spread across federal and state domains,
located in the municipalities of Altamira, Juruti, Medicilândia, Óbidos, Prainha and Terra Santa.