Political culture in deep Brazil in the decades 1960-2000

reports of the French ethnologist Colette Callier Boisvert

Abstract

The work discusses the intellectual production of the French ethnologist Collete Callier Boisvert regarding the dynamics of political relations present in a city in the Agreste region of Pernambuco, investigated by the researcher for nearly half a century. It problematizes, from an analysis of the discourse of its texts: (a) the generating themes of its analytical procedure, that is, the enunciative regularities; (b) interdiscursivity, based on the study of affiliation and moments of displacement established by the researcher's narrative with the history of Brazilian social thought in the first half of the 20th century. His work laid the foundations for a fruitful analysis of phenomena such as rural and urban clientelism, the relations between chiefs and clients and the processes of social stratification in force in the interior of the Northeast during the Brazilian Military Dictatorship and in the first decades of the country's redemocratization.

Keywords: Brazilian Northeast. Political culture. Clientelism.