The work focuses on some life aspects related to an urban cattle ranching family that herds its
animals within the urban area of Castanhal Municipality (Pará, Brazil, Eastern Amazonia). It
aims to describe and analyze the specific sequence of events that marked the progressively
conflicting relationship between the family and its social environment, emphasizing the
motivations, mindsets, arguments and points of view underlying the actions performed by the
actors involved in the process over time. The method used was the case study, associated
mainly with participant observation, semistructured interviews, debates and guided tours to
representative spaces to the interlocutors’ history, which were applied in field from June 2013
until February 2014. The first aspect on focus was the social conflict itself, the rough
argument performed by the family members and various sectors of society (neighbors, fellow
citizens, legislators, government and other authorities) in different moments of their
trajectory. The second aspect detailed was the socialization process developed in the
children’s upbringing within the family environment and the shifts in its orientation, due to
the social pressure against the maintenance of cattle grazing in the urban seat. The third aspect
analyzed referred to the contextualization of how the cattle grazing points gradually shifted
along the land and how it influenced the formation of new working groups compositions
within the family under discussion over specific moments in time.
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