The tradition of babassu nut breaker communities, emanated from both family farming and
and breaking of the coconut, is affected and affects several factors, including the various legal
instruments over time. The reproductive strategies of these communities and the renewal of
their tradition required the redefinition of legal instruments around the regularization and
private property. This dissertation presents the complex relationship developed between the
community called Centrinho do Acrísio, in the municipality of Lago do Junco, Maranhão, and
the State, especially given the legal means of access to land. This study investigates the
trajectory of adaptation, transformation and redefinition of the different aspects of this
traditional babassu nut breakers community. These processes highlight the shortcomings of
monistic and conservative version of Brazilian law, and gives a critical element to the
imbalance between positive right and the right that is intended to be a law. No more than that,
the renewal of the traditional aspects occurs when communities take on new identities and
organizational forms in which conquering the new practice rights
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