%0 Journal Article %T O valente e a farda: as perip¨¦cias de um narrador e sua indument¨¢ria nas secas do Cear¨¢ %A Rios %A K¨ºnia Sousa %J Estudos Hist¨®ricos (Rio de Janeiro) %D 2011 %I Centro de Pesquisa e Documenta??o de Hist¨®ria Contempor?nea do Brasil da Funda??o Get¨²lio Vargas %R 10.1590/S0103-21862011000200006 %X the article presents the survival strategies of a migrant during the droughts in cear¨¢. mister muri£¿oca reworks his life by appropriating certain objects. through a very astute empowering of his uniform, he builds routes and ways to escape the drought. based upon mr. muri£¿oca's narratives, the uniform acquires senses that are constructed in connection with the daily life of other migrants %K clothing %K drought %K narrative %K orality %K material culture %K memory. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0103-21862011000200006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en