Crimes no sertão do Seridó/RN: dois processos contra ciganos (1880-1937)

Abstract

This work tries to understand which representations were constructed about the gypsies that passed and / or resided in Sertão Serido, specifically in the city of Caicó, in the State of Rio Grande do Norte. In view of this, the temporal cut of the present study is based on the years attributed to historical sources, we read judicial proceedings: the year 1880 and, therefore, the year 1937. The problem of this research is based on the so-called New History Cultural and the methodology of this study is based on the analysis of the speech, that is, in the "speeches" of both gypsies and bailiffs (police chiefs, lawyers, judges), in order to understand the stereotypes linked to gypsies for millennia. It also presents a gaze related to the gypsies Calon, a group of many other gypsy groups scattered throughout Brazil and the world.