No emaranhado do Guamá: trajetos etnográficos numa feira de Belém

Abstract

This seeks a phenomenological description of Guamá’s market, located in a neighborhood of Belém, Brazil. Dialoguing with ethnocartography procedures, we start with a comprehensive exposition of the spatiality of the market. We hope to enhance endogenous dimension of local spatial experience. Undertaking a phenomenology of the place means, in our understanding, a double movement: First, to ask how the social subjects find the world in its spatial complexity and, then, to interpret how these encouters are used to make sense to spatial world. One sees the space as a dimension experienced by individuals, and not as something foreshadowed by representations. Thus, the market we describe corresponds a space in its intersubjective dimension: not as something pre-ontologically given, but rather as an ongoing construction of meaning.