Reflexões acerca do desenvolvimento: as antigas e novas experiências com a cordoalha na comunidade Cuiuiú – Barra de Santa Rosa/PB.

Abstract

The production and the sale of handcraft, in these days, has payed some institutions attention as a mechanism of insertion some social groups and rural communities in a consume wealth, and this would contribute to an obtainment to other revenue ways, promoting, the development of some places (a community, a place, a rural area, etc). In the town of Barra de Santa Rosa/Paraíba, the situation mentioned below becomes a concrete reality, from a experience of the creation of Centro Artesanal de Cuiuiú, in 1999, with a Project of Implantation of the Unity of Sisal Fiber Betterment (Agave sisalana, Perr.) To Confection of handcraft in Cuiuiú's Community – Barra de Santa Rosa. They had involved in this project, as long as agents and mediators of a development propose the institutions followed: Parque Tecnológico da Paraíba – PaqTc PB; Universidade Federal de Campina Grande – UFCG; Programa de Ações e Estudos do Semi-árido - PEASA; Serviço Brasileiro de Apoio as Micro e Pequenas Empresas – SEBRAE/PB; and Governo do Estado da Paraíba, through the program Paraíba em suas Mãos. To reach the objectives this institutions had to dimension again the production of cordage in the Cuiuiu's community, offering a new sense to activity, which were realized by all local families, which learning was transmitted, between the orality and the collective experience through the generations, inside the family groups. However, this activity hadn't generated revenue enough to keep the family's equilibrium social-economical. Having as empiric reference of development implanted in Cuiuiú's community, I'll try analyzing the experience of creation of the Centro Artesanal de Cuiuiú, attending especially to the logics and practicals which are formed so as the local actors, so as the agencies that fomented the project, about the development.