Dia de feira: um estudo sobre sociabilidade e modos de fazer entre feirantes na Feira Livre de Itapororoca - PB

Abstract

The street markets are endowed with peculiar characteristics and present themselves as a fundamental factor in the economy of some cities, mainly in the Northeast. In addition to promoting the popular culture, the street market also offers various products at affordable prices for the population. In the Itapororoca-PB city the street market brings, besides the main goal which is the buying and selling of merchandises, many possibilities for meetings and conversations between people who go there. It is a space where you can build multiples sociabilities. This paper analyzes the sociability forms established, as well as the ways to make between the market traders on street market of Itapororoca city, Paraíba interior.The research was based on the theoretical reference of urban anthropology that discuss about the sociability and the space of the street market in the cities. Was adopted as a methodology the ethnography and the participant observation associated with realization of semi-structured interviews with the market traders, customers and locals alike of the city and the diary field notes.