Mercado de comidas típicas: uma etnografia das trocas econômicas na praça de alimentação da casa do artesão

Abstract

The article deals with the techniques of research, participant observation, an ethnographic analysis of a group of typical food vendors who sell their products at the fair next to the Craftsman house in the city of Macapá, also known as the Tourist Complex Riverside. Considering the previous studies in the field of Economic Anthropology and its contributions to the understanding of social organization, economic and networks of social relations, visuo identify social ties that underlie the exchange between workers in the food stalls typical. Perspective as I investigate some fundamental categories of anthropological literature as economic reciprocity, solidarity, kinship relations dadivosas, trust, consolidating activities than dichotomies between the couple formal / informal. Strengthening modestly theoretical debate and empirical, addressing these aspects of anthropology that structure economic relations prevailing market of typical foods. In this sense, analyze and describe how this process occurs the light of economic systems social, political and cultural.