Abstract:
The objective of this article is to understand how the assentados and sem-terra are represented by the former residents of a municipality in Rio Grande do Sul state. Based on an ethnographic approach, we seek to understand the sociodynamics of stigmatization. With the results we identify a transition between two periods: from a tense and opposite connection with the policy of rural settlements, the former residents reach a more amicable and ambiguous position of relation and qualification of the assentados populations.
Keywords:
land reform; sem-terra; stigma; conflict; power