A imbricação entre artesanato e ambiente: da APA maroaga à AGROUFAM

Abstract

Craftsmanship has emerged with increasing vehemence today, and materializes the imbrication between the subjective and objective aspects of the various social groups. Thus, observing the indispensability of the development of research related to the theme, the objective of this dissertation was to analyze the training and the development of the handicrafts produced by the APA Maroaga women. The choice of the study area was based on a social demand, in which the research subjects asked the university for projects that aimed to analyze the productive process of the crafts and their unfolding. To reach the proposed objective, several methodological instruments were used, such as application of forms, open interviews and the Matrix of Benefits and Obstacles. The design of the sample design was 100% of the artisans of APA Maroaga, which corresponds to a total of 04 women. The data were systematized in the Excel Program, which is a software used for the creation of databases and for the generation of graphs and tables. In this sense, the methodological tools listed have subsidized the achievement of the specific objectives and, consequently, of the general objective of the research. It can be inferred, after analyzing the data, that handicrafts, although not the main source of income, play a significant role in the social reproduction of APA Maroaga artisan families. The benefits range from increasing monthly income to the dimension of symbolic reproduction of the community tradition. However, the history of the artisans of the APA Maroaga is a history of resistance, in which the sense of belonging and the symbolic aspects, existing in the making of the handicrafts, have been identified as obstacles to the transportation of handicrafts and the lack of governmental support, Transposes the barriers faced. Therefore, it can be affirmed that handicrafts have been an important element in the perpetuation of traditions, since, through the techniques used, they have corroborated the ethnoconditioning, constructed generationally, and reproduced in a cyclical and transformative way.