The parcelling of farms at Montinho and Gramacha - notes for a research

Abstract

The parcelling of farms at Montinho and Gramacha (Alentejo) is now the aim of a study made by a group. In course of the first steps of this research, one has found out that there was an important report, dated 1938, exactly referring to the parcelling processus in those farms, begun about 40 years before at Montinho and 17 years before at Gramacha. In this text, taking that document for its source, one does not try, nevertheless, to make only an arid commentary on the report letter. The spirit that one has tried to grant it lies in the intention of, on one side, considering the time in which the parcelling was made, to raise briefly some questions (antecedents, conjuncture record, colonization) and, on the other side, considering the report and the case reported by it, to summarize some points of analysis suggested by it. One only aims to a first inventory of elements, perhaps susceptible of being included in a research guide, in connection with the aim of the study in course.