Pig farming and anthropization of the Ombrophilous Mixed Forest in western Santa Catarina (1910s to 1950s)

ABSTRACT

This work aims to analyze the transformations in the landscape of the Ombrophilous Mixed Forest (OMF) in western Santa Catarina, using pig farming as the guiding thread, between the period that comprises the beginning of colonization, from the end of the 1910s to the end of the 1950s, when the agro-industrial sector of meat production was regionally consolidated. To this end, a varied typology of sources was analyzed, in dialogue with the precepts of environmental history.

KEYWORDS:
Pigs; Environmental History; Caboclos; Colonization; Landscape