Mãos que tecem: uma etnografia da produção de renda renascença em uma comunidade quilombola do Cariri Paraibano.

Abstract

In this work, we describe how the production of Renaissance lace works with the women of Cacimba Nova, a quilombola community in Cariri Paraibano (remnant of black people who resisted slavery in the Brazilian past). We address how this expressive production is carried out in the domestic environment of these lace and their motivations for continuing to produce the renaissance. Based on the relationship they have with the objects created, as well as the symbolic and cultural value of income, we investigate the relationship between their bodies and objects created through this activity. From this, we were able to understand how the meanings of income were internalized, since the learning process in childhood, and later intensified when this production generated an idea of autonomy. In addition to the pride, they have in their craft, which to a certain extent generated a gift throughout their lives, this concept was used based on readings made by Marcel Mauss. In this work, the argument is that this option occurs because the renaissance income now has a symbolic character, which goes beyond the utilitarian logic of work. It was found throughout the research that this relationship is affective and, initially, it was a means, through which they regained autonomy. For this, a bibliographical study was necessary and, to enter the research field, we adopted ethnography as a methodological path. Five recipes developed to carry out this work.