As redeiras: etnografia do artesanato e das materialidades na pesca artesanal da Colônia Z-3, Pelotas, RS

Abstract

The investigation involves the plot of craftsmanship in the fishing community, forming a family production chain of artisanal fishing, in a group of women known as Redeiras.In the investigation, I understood the forms of interaction that these women have with the materials, constituting this group of artisans, shaped by materialities.Materialities that I understand in the relationship between matter and spirit, of these women, as a traditional group in its elementary dimension. Materiality is linked to material objects, the basic facts of existence, the feelings, passions and female bodies of the artisans.Materiality appears in the dimension and use of bodily techniques, of objects that imply the uses and determination of the bodies that constitute the weavings and interactions to constitute this world that shapes them as Redeiras.Investigating the relationships between being Redeira and know-how in the reuse of ancestral techniques linked to fishing nets opened up a range of possibilities for these women's experiences. Fieldwork in Anthropology, through ethnography, in a qualitative approach allowed us to approach everyday life and its practices, in the web of life, full of symbols, meanings and signifiers of its ways of being in the world.The exercise of “strangeness” and binding interaction, in my own being as an artisan. And promoted by the presence of a mediator, my artisan mother Lea, they enabled the identification of the cultural characterization of Redeiras.The training of an investigative perspective in terms of listening and reading contexts allowed me to write, as predicted by the main thinkers of Brazilian anthropology, in qualitative research.The ethnographic meeting of the artisan researcher with the artisan linker and with the artisans Redeiras, carries out the exercise of familiarity necessary to understand the universe investigated.The ethnography of visits to fairs, the Public Market, the community of Redeiras, inserted interlocutions for the dense description of the ebbs and flows in the existential materiality of the community.The success in the field dynamics, even with the initial uncertainties, provided oral descriptions and conclusive observations about the processes that involve the craftsmanship of Redeiras.Ethnographic records are exclusive considering the field diary, which was the main instrument linked to the audios, photographs and images created and used.The methodological approach allowed for a bibliographical review in anthropology, on the subject, on the community, on the lifestyles of artisans.Virtual media such as the group's Instagram, websites, and other digital publications provided further evidence of the perspectives raised in the field.Women in fishing and the theme of Redeiras in particular, work in crafts, forming their own anthropological context with their own diacritical features that mark their materiality.A web of knowledge and attributive values of this collective.The practices in the manufacture, uses and circulation of their crafts show paths of materiality, in the interaction of Redeiras with material culture, crafts, the fishing community of Colônia Z-3, on the Costa Doce, in the municipality of Pelotas, in Rio Grande do Sul.