FAMILY AGRICULTURE AND CULTURAL IDENTITY

a theoretical study

Abstract

This article aims to highlight the influence that the practice of family farming has on the process of building the identity of the people who are involved in the activity. To this end, we seek, through a literature review, to show that family farming - an activity that involves production, work and family -, at the beginning, had a character more focused on subsistence, with small production and over time it incorporated new meanings. . As a consequence of these new meanings, the identity - an element considered to be one of the most complex to study and arrive at a concrete statement - of the agents involved in family farming were placed at the foot of transformations and / or reframings, since identity is something in constant construction and, it takes culture into consideration - something of many variations in all spheres - of the environment in which they are inserted.