Candian: the last caipira

Abstract

The article brings together some peculiarities of a human being identified in the anthropology as caipira. In its existential core, there are some particularities such as the relation with the rural neighborhood, the “mutirão” and the songs of the cururu. In this way, starting from the iconographic documents of the historian and intellectual Ernani Silva Bruno available at the Institute of Brazilian Studies of the University of Sao Paulo (IEB/USP) and the studies of the sociologist and literate Antônio Candido, the present work aims to demonstrate the actions and social relations of this culture in the city of Iracemápolis through the daily habits of Mr. Candian, responsible member for the transmission of this traditional country way of life in the urban zone.