Da capoeira à prateleira: etnografia da produção de artefatos para a venda no Centro de Artesanatos Torü Cuagüpa Ta da comunidade Bom Caminhoũ

Abstract

This work want to describe the circuit of production artifacts in workmanship Center Torü Cuagüpa Taũ, trying to show how a group of Ticuna ethnicity transforms and inserts its craft production in a market economy, highlighting the relevant aspects of domination and autonomy in the process. The Center is located in the village Bom Caminho, town of Benjamin Constant, the triple border between Brazil and Peru and Colombia. The Ticuna has a strong cultural tradition of manufacturing artifacts. The collective memory reproduces the emergence of humanity, Yoi'i and Ipi, cultural heroes, and his sisters and Mowatcha Aiküna, weaving artifacts while were in the knee of Ngutapa and, to touch the earth brought with them the first objects. In the material world, until the 80s, the production of artifacts in Bom Caminho followed the cultural tradition to meet the domestic context and keep small circuits of exchange established by inter-ethnic relations. By integrating projects and other grounded in the discourse of sustainable development production was and is being encouraged to market by modifying the traditional economy. The artisan as a social agent integrates an category external of Ticuna work culture, potentiated by hegemonic economic trough. However, artisans of Center Crafts work deconstructed this category assuming Ticuna identity. While ethnic group, built a network of relationships based upon a particular type of consumer ethnic borders, where goods and people circulate and have social life.