Sociabilidades no Mercado de Peixe do Ver-o-Peso durante o Círio de Nazaré

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze some aspects of the practices carried out by fishmongers, rockers and glaciers from Ver-o-Peso through the sociability they perform. Assuming that the social practices are responsible for the signification or re-significations of the spaces, the Ver-o-Peso, the oldest commercial area of the city of Belém, is daily presented as a place for expressive activity of work, but eventually it is also a place of entertainment for those who work daily on it. From the festival, that takes place during the Círio de Nazaré in Belem, in order to render honors to the Saint, Our Lady of Nazareth, will be interpreted in the prism of an anthropological approach, the existed playful side in Ver-o-Peso. To perform the analysis, were carried out direct observation and interviews with those who work in the fish commercialization in Ver-o-Peso, more precisely in the Mercado de Ferro (Iron Market), as also known as Mercado de Peixe (Fish Market), which are responsible for carrying the Feast.