Entre as garras do couro e os salões de artesanato: considerações acerca do ofício couteiro em Ribeira de Cabaceiras.

Abstract

This work presents reflections concerning the found traditional artisan activities in the region of Ribeira (district of Cabaceiras - situated in the region of the Cariri occidental person, in the State of the Paraíba). Being subdivided in three chapters, which if endorse in bibliographical research of field and concerning the conceptions of studious as E.P. Thompson, Nestor Garcia Canclini and Maurice Halbwach. In the first chapter, we raise a quarrel concerning the importance of the artesanato in the community of Ribeira. We made something that we consider essential for this research that was to concept of the artisan and its main forms of presentation in the current society. Moreover, we to tell history as, from years 1990 some state projects had been instituted, in the direction to invent the city of Cabaceiras as territory of the tradition and as this affected of direct form and indirect the life and the work donate craftsmen and, this provided in them to think on two constituent elements of our work: tradition and memory. In chapter two, we argue as the practical ones instituted as traditional they pass to be valued in the globalization world and as the craftsmen pass (reverse speed) to invent strategies of conviviality with the global village that supplies innumerable possibilities to them as for example, to offer its devices as symbols of traditional know-making. In this direction, we use concepts as of hybrid, used for Nestor Canclini, that in offers possibilities to them of agreement of the artisans as an activity in constant process of (reverse speed) meaning for to the coexist with the globalization. No longer third chapter we dedicate to our studies the two the oldest considered craftsmen e, respectively, most experienced of the place. These, are presented as disentailed of the social and institucional programs implemented by governments and institutions throughout last the twenty years. Maurício Marçal and Jose Messias are considered of extreme importance for the community have seen that the same ones bring in itself a depositary to know to make with respect to the traditional crafts in the leather.