O espaço da moradia rural no Povoado de Pequizeiro, Belágua, Maranhão

Abstract

The rural area of Maranhão has more than 2 million residents, which represents about 36% of the State's population, the highest percentage of rural population in the country, according to data of IBGE (2010). To deepen the understanding of this reality from a larger view about the local habitant’s way of living, through the analysis of their houses and lots, it allows to know the traditional knowledge involved in daily actions related to building, living, producing and relation activities. Indeed, these grants are important for the design and implementation of public policies more consistent with the social and environmental realities of the communities. As a contribution to the understanding of the peasant’s dwelling space, this monograph studies the rural house and its property area along with its outbuildings while living and working environments of daily actions, taking as a case study the village of Pequizeiro, municipality of Belágua, in the State of Maranhão. The rural environment and its unique atributes that involve its practice are a current reality in Maranhão, which needs the necessary care so that people from this environment don’t feel forced to vacate it and it ends up being extinguished, losing all the its values.