Fazendo feira: uma etnografia entre mulheres camponesas de Santa Maria/RS

Abstract

The current work is a result of an ethnographic research carried out among peasant women that are part of an urban farmers’ market located in the city of Santa Maria – RS (Brazil), popularly known as “Little Farmers’ Market of Camobi”. The peasants that are part of this farmers’ market live in Santa Maria or nearby cities and bring their products there for commercialization. This paper aims to highlight the women’s role as a productive agent and as a wealth generator. It also seeks to describe the sociabilities, the manners of doing, the festival of colors, flavors and aromas and diversities that are present there, tuning the rural and the urban, and revealing a fruitful trading local of family farming produce, worthy of further studies and some public investment.