Feira livre: patrimônio material e imaterial de Santo Estevão/BA

Abstract

The present research has as its object the street market of Santo Estêvão – BA, as a material and immaterial patrimony, and discusses the socioeconomic impacts, emotions, sensations and memories of this street market for the people of the city. This study has as general objective to understand what made the free market in the city of Santo Estêvão become a material culture and immaterial historical patrimony, and how images about the redesigned city were constructed and represented based on the transfers of the market, in the period of 1922 to 1990. And as specific objectives: to describe the scenario of the street market in Santo Estêvão based on its images; narrate the memories told by the people of Santo Esteve about this free market; identify what makes the street market recognized as material and immaterial patrimony of the aforementioned city. To this end, the methodology is based on a qualitative approach, and uses the ethnographic method, which makes it possible to analyze the history, memories and sensations about or in the city's street market. It also uses documentary research, when analyzing documents from the public archive; iconography and iconology, in the study of old and current photographs available in magazines published by the city hall. As an instrument, the use of interviews will be considered to collect data and analyze reality. Theoretically, the research is based on the concepts of urban space design (maps), collective memory and places of memories, having as theoretical support the studies of Pesavento (2007), Pierre Nora (1993), Gilmar Arruda (2000), Jacque Lê Goff (1998), Menezes (1998) and Milton Santos (1978). Knowing that the dynamics and resilience of the Santo Estêvão street market represent its importance in the lives of the people who depend on it for their subsistence, it is considered important to describe the historical organizational context of this market, to know: what made it so that it could become a material and immaterial heritage for the city; what makes it responsible for moving the local economy; how this street market brings to the present the sensibilities of the past of this city; and, also, by analyzing the experiences and emotions of the people who frequent it, understand how the visible and the invisible of the city converge and diverge in the informal commerce of Santo Estêvão.