Olha o rapa: os feirantes e as artes do saber fazer o cotidiano na Feira Central de Campina Grande (1970-1983).

Abstract

The Fair Center of Campina Grande is an area of multiple sociability, social interaction and cultural practices involving negotiations. Divided into several sectors, in which each sector is connected to a product type, a type of knowledge, where trade flowers, fruits, cheeses, jams, roots and other products. It is a daily meeting space and collective manifestations, which has the characters of the everyday merchants and customer. The fair has been studied under various aspects (such as: economic, sociological, geographical and other), our study aims to analyze it as a place of tension and conflict, based on the "rapa" from 1970 to 1983 to use both newspapers and oral histories of memories, which enabled us to understand the repercussions of this process and how the street merchants were persecuted by the City tax.