Oleiros da “Fazendinha”: entre o capital e o saber ecológico na produção da cerâmica caeteuara

Abstract

Antônio Maria Macêdo is part of the third generation of a family of Portuguese descent who works in the production of caeteuara ceramics, in a community known as Fazendinha, in the municipality of Bragança-Pará. The video records, in the person of Mr. 102 Nova Revista Amazônica – ANO IV – Volume 3 – DEZEMBRO 2016 – ISSN: 2318-1346 Paixão, that behind the pieces manufactured by hand and recognized in the region, there are ecological knowledge simbricados, fruits of the interaction of the family that works in the production of the crafts and its relationship of appreciation and affection with the environment . In the process of making the pottery, the use of the seed bathed in the oil of andiroba, the white clay without odor carefully removed from the várzea, the guard of the roots of the Siribeira on the banks of the Caeté and the aesthetics of the road built crooked to the river, because More beautiful, exemplify the symbiosis between man and nature, whose relationship seeks, in the face of the need for survival, to reconcile the conquest of capital with the environmental preservation carried out by man