As práticas informacionais relacionadas ao saber e ao fazer das erveiras do Ver-o-Peso: uma análise interdisciplinar

Abstract

This research deals with information practices related to the traditional knowledge of the erveiras Ver-o-Peso Fair in Belém do Pará. In general, the objective is to analyze, in an interdisciplinary perspective, the processes that involve the information on the know-how and do of these individuals who work at Ver-o-Peso. To fulfill this objective, it uses bibliographic research and field research as a methodology, based on a qualitative approach and making use of research instruments such as semi-structured interviews and the photographic camera. From the data collected in the field, together with the adopted theoretical framework, the establishment of eleven (11) categories of analysis and the presentation of a flow of information in the context of the activities of the erveiras were obtained. It shows that orality is the means by which the herbs have been used to transmit their knowledge to possible successors. The daughters or the helpers of the herders absorb information by assisting at home and / or the daily work of Ver-o-Peso, store them in memory and in the face of a need trigger a mental process of retrieving information for effective use. It concludes that understanding the information practices embedded in the daily life of people with traditional knowledge can support conditions that favor the continuity of this knowledge structured by a legacy of information transmitted in the movement of the generations and, in this case, one of the most famous popular fairs of the Brazil: the Ver-o-Peso.