Panela de barro: um estudo sobre a comercialização da cerâmica popular no Ver-o-Peso (Belém-Pa)

Abstract

The study in question of popular pottery is inserted in the project "Ethnographic Collections: Documentary Formation and Research", coordinated by Lúcia Hussak van Velthem of the Department of Human Sciences of the Goeldi Museum. This study proposes an anthropological analysis of an aspect of the metropolitan Paraense handicraft, from the formation of an ethnographic collection, seeking to register the existing relationships between the material and non-material domains of the groups studied. The research aims at collecting and documenting the ceramic artifacts commercialized at Ver-o-Peso, a fair located at the margins of Guajará Bay, distributed in two sales points: in the boats and sidewalk of the Açaí fair and in what is known as the "ceramics and bugs fair" installed at the back of the Solar da Beira building. The ethnography elaborated registers the process of commercialization in these areas, as well as the pertinent social relations, verifying the resistance of this commerce despite the decadence that is due to social and economic issues. The processes of initiation and continuity in the ceramic commerce is done by kinship and from father to son. The documentary work was carried out from the identification, classification, and cataloging of the artifacts. The study employed museological techniques for the formation of the ethnographic collection and anthropological methodology.