Entalhadores do efêmero: a vida associativa na criação dos Brinquedos de Miriti de Abaetetuba

Abstract

This research analyzes the social relations that occur in the creative process developed by artisans who produce so called Miriti Toys of Abaetetuba, referred to as Miriti artisans, and demonstrates how they socially organize themselves around creative processes and how to build the outreach structures that feature their associative life. Characterized as an interdisciplinary research, this study makes a theoretical and a methodological intersection whose reference point is the approach of the Social Field concept coupled with the study the use of social gatherings and social interactions. Held in the city of Abaetetuba (located in the state of Pará in the north of Brazil), it was performed by collecting data on fieldwork through the use of interview techniques (non directive and directive), and direct observation with prior literature research. In its course, the study presents the identity and creative processes that characterize the associative life of Miriti artisans, the dynamics of associative life in Relations Field of Miriti Artisans of Abaetetuba and the description of the social occasions that occur in it. At the end, it concludes that the associative life of Miriti artisans develops itself by/from their families creative core and merges with a range of meanings and practices from social occasions into the public order, allowing them to keeping up and reproducing themselves through the Relations Field so that they recognize their own determinations more than the interventions and impositions by external agents responsible for marketing control and public policies in this social field. Without any deliberate calculations and despite outside attempts of controlling and mediation, the artisans from Abaetetuba still revitalize and contextualize their lifestyles own practices as well as their peculiar knowledge and know-how