The excerpt, the mothers and the roles: ethnography of movements and durations in northern Goiás

Abstract

Due to their wanderings and different paths, the "poor people" studied by Guedes - from different origins (from Maranhão, Goiás, Minas Gerais, Bahia, etc.), people walked and mixed, almost all at some point involved with mining, local and de-dwellers (de-dwelling, the author explains to us, would be something less than dwelling; it would be "de-stay-there") –, he found himself in Minaçu. As a result of his encounter with this "people", what "The excerpt, the mothers and the papers" seeks to instigate is a reflection and questioning about the (still) hegemonic idea that the movement is the exception, permanence is the rule , and that, therefore, "migrate", a term, to a large extent, loaded with previous connotations - implies the last resource of those who migrate.