HISTORY AND ESSENCE OF A TRADITIONAL OCCUPATION: POTTERIES, POTTERS AND HANDCRAFTED FORMS

• Main Authors: Lorena Barbosa, Jean Carlos Vieira, Mariana Savietto
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Programa de Pós-graduação em Geografia (PPGEO) 2018-12-01
• Series: GeoNordeste
• Subjects: Small Village; Traditional Occupation; Cerrado; Bricks.
• Online Access: https://seer.ufs.br/index.php/geonordeste/article/view/8912/pdf

This article proposes a reflection on the knowledge and practice of pottery communities, in order to understand the handcrafted forms as part of a sociocultural, economic and organizational behavior, that use the places of clay extraction as productive and life space. Concerning the methodological aspects, the research was divided into two phases – documentary research (references survey) and fieldwork – and, through the last one, the photographic material was constructed, the reports of the respondents were obtained and questionnaires were applied to ten subjects from the municipality of Gouvelândia, Goiás, Brazil. According to the main results, 100% of the pottery workers are male, 61% have not even finished basic education, 50% are between 18 and 33 years old, 50% work between six and ten years with the traditional occupation and, to 100% of these individuals, the potteries are part of the history and tradition of the referred municipality.