Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:25:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 JoaoMGN_DISSERT.PDF: 921324 bytes, checksum: eba5727cafcc0c495f08d327aad7311b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-08-20 / How do the identities of a people build themselves? How do the geographic clippings influence the representations of some social groups, when they define themselves or when they are defined, for example, as people from Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Sul, Para?ba, Rio de Janeiro, Cear?, Bahia? What symbolic elements, contests and benefits are involved in these processes of identity construction? By taking the discussions about potiguar people as the theme of this research, we intend to discuss about the displacements, the impasses in their representations that usually represent him as a being who he is not, constantly seduced by the enchantments of the other, by the values that come from outside. Thus, from the Rio Grande do Norte space, we investigated, in various contexts, since the last three decades of the nineteenth century to the current days, how the space identities have been used as strategy, by various characters, in attempt to build and/or to define representations that characterize and single potiguares out, in the face of other beings of the nation / Como se constroem as identidades de um povo? De que maneira o recorte geogr?fico influi nas representa??es dos v?rios grupos sociais, quando estes se definem e/ou s?o definidos, por exemplo, como pernambucanos, ga?chos, paraibanos, cariocas, cearenses, baianos...? Que elementos simb?licos, disputas e interesses est?o envoltos nesses processos de constru??o identit?ria? Tomando as discuss?es sobre o potiguar como recorte tem?tico, a presente pesquisa busca problematizar os deslocamentos, os impasses nas suas representa??es, as quais, via de regra, costumam apresent?-lo como um ser que n?o ?, constantemente seduzido pelos encantos do outro, pelos valores que v?m de fora de suas fronteiras. Assim, a partir da espacialidade norte-rio-grandense, investigamos, em v?rios contextos, desde as ?ltimas tr?s d?cadas do s?culo XIX aos dias atuais, de que maneira as identidades espaciais t?m sido utilizadas como estrat?gia, por personagens diversos, na tentativa de construir e/ou definir representa??es que caracterizem e singularizem os potiguares, frente aos demais entes da na??o