Relações de parentesco, vizinhança e compadrio na freguesia agro-mineradora de Catas Altas (1712-1742)

Abstract

A survey of the research is identified and a working logic of the relations of compadrio in Catas Altas, parish with the term of Vila do Carmo (present Mariana) in Minas Gerais, focusing on the first half of the eighteenth century, a period of great economic and economic effervescence increase, but mainly because this period is a physical condition and is settling and thus creating possible affective and financial ties. The relations of kinship and compadrio in the society of the Old Regime surpassed like relations of neighborhood. Compadrio was used in various ways, for example, as an instrument for the formation and consolidation of communities, as well as the possibility of closer relations between different social strata. Such links are created not only in inbreeding kinship groups but also in the formation of alliances of "fictional kinship" or even in clientele networks. Established at the request of a Portuguese society, from the mercy system and the economy of the gift, where the prestige and qualifications of the individual are led into criticism. More specifically it focuses on the concept of reciprocity, where the mechanisms of solidarity are characterized by a social project based on distributive justice and simultaneously in a rigid social hierarchy in which those who guarantee the functioning or mediation of relations were a Church in its role of tutor