A Feira de São João do Cariri: transformações e persistências.

Abstract

The present work refers to a fair in the municipality of São João do Cariri, aiming to analyze the dynamics of the socio-spatial transformations and persistences that it has been going through, as well as to investigate its influence in the past and current times. The fair is one of the oldest forms of commercialization, and it is in this space that the relationships between the living spaces are developed and where cultural, social and economic aspects that define the identity of a people are developed. At first the economic relations were directed to the commercialization of cattle in the free fairs. Leaving to the empirical cut of this research, the free fair of the municipality of São João do Cariri is characterized as a space that has lost its hegemony of the past and that today shows resistance to the changes that this space has been suffering throughout its existence. analysis, we sought to understand the relationships that persist in this space, and its economic importance. As methodological procedures, field study and observation with photographic records, data analysis and quantitative research were carried out with the application of questionnaires. In this context, the fair is inserted as a traditional activity persisting in the culture of the municipality and, which are in contrast to other types of commercial concentration that are the most modern fixed commercial establishments. Despite these considerations, the fair still has economic importance for the local population, as it is a space of consumption and socialization.