Entre os cheiros e garrafadas: o trabalho das vendedoras de cheiro nas feiras públicas de Belém-PA em 1830-1890

Abstract

This versa article on the work performed by the sellers of herbs to scent bath production and therapeutic products called "potions" in Belém do Pará from 1830 to 1890, it aims to revamp, based on newspaper documents, minutes and decrees, ie the historiography concerning women who worked with herbs and therapeutic potions in public fairs of Bethlehem between years 1830 to 1890, during which great are newspaper reports of this occupation and its conflicting relations, and, so is able to make an important contribution to the urban history of this period in Belém do Pará. Thus, I seek to present as were developing these professional activities that confirm the presence of african nature of religions, or shamanism since the nineteenth century and took place as possible conflicts around this occupation in Bethlehem. In addition to analyzing the profession of ganhadeiras under an optical unlike many other views in various regions of Brazil and even in Pará, since most of the reference studies on ganhadeiras is to analyze proposal -Las on food bias, this research is given by the documentary eye on the meaning of work and the symbolization smelling bath products, herbal potions and herbs and propose a relationship between these sales and the presence of religions of African origin in Amazon or even own shamanism in the urban area, that is, in the Amazon metropolis.