Tese
“A mulher toma um pilgie e vai trabalhá”: uma etnografia com colonas do leite em Santo Cristo- RS
Fecha
2022-10-11Autor
Froelich, Patrícia Rejane
Institución
Resumen
In this thesis I seek to understand the meanings that rural women in Santo Cristo-RS confer to
work, body and health through a pandemic ethnography (methodology adapted for the
pandemic period of Covid-19), with data collection in 2020 and analytical maturation until
mid-2022. The theoretical framework is based on anthropology, sociology, and rural
extension. Besides the aforementioned triad, the text is also studded with the anguishes of
academic production and writing in a period of health crisis and limited financial resources.
The proposal that anchors all the creative energy mobilized here aims to promote
epistemological and social reflections, as well as fruitful interludes in the debate on
contemporary ruralities. I have privileged writing in the female gender to question the
hegemonic pattern and to sponsor new molds of decolonial science. Many questions adjacent
to the research problem present themselves throughout the text to temper rumination: what is
it to be a rural woman in the context of dairy cattle farming in northwestern Rio Grande do
Sul? What is it like to reflect on oneself in a context of physical exhaustion? What are the
psycho-emotional impacts of the pandemic for them/us? What is the importance of research in
a period of scourges? The research, and consequently the writing, went through particular
affectations, tuned to the grope of understanding the way of being a rural woman, epicentered
in a locality of the northwest of Rio Grande do Sul and how this is related to broader social
issues (of health and work). Although the notions of body, health, and work have been
developed in separate chapters, their intertwining and cultural consonance is remarkable. A
body fit for work means health for the women surveyed, therefore, a moral value is given to
this resourcefulness. Family is commonly rated as the most important thing in their lives.
Most of them declared to be happy with their routine, even though they aspire to a less
expensive profession for their offspring.