Tristán Narvaja: uma etnografia sobre a Feira dos ‘Mundos Paralelos’ na cidade de Montevideo

Abstract

This thesis takes the fair of Tristán Narvaja, in Montevideo, while the universe of ethnography research. Throughout four chapters, oral and imagery narrativity is privileged, as well as the importance of a connection in time whit this place. I emphasize the pertinence and use of methods and various research techniques, such as street ethnography, floating observation, participant observation, cartography, ethnobiography and virtual ethnography, in dialogue with the theoretical contributions of the Urban Anthropology and Visual Anthropology. The specificity of the interlocutors and their narratives justify the relationship between the allegories of the flâneur and the collector, as well as the relation between surrealism and ethnography. From this, the Tristán Narvaja’s fair is an important place for searches and meetings related to the life trajectories of the interlocutors and the researcher. The notion of parallel worlds, like structuring axis of this ethnography, refers to goods marketed by workers known as cachivacheros. The memories and histories gathered in this research seek to reveal the anthropological importance and the particularities of this Sunday event which has been repeated for more than a century in the Uruguayan capital, without ever being the same