Cascos no asfalto: etnografia das interações urbanas entre cavalos, humanos e outros bichos.

Abstract

The families who work with animal traction - designated by the emic term charreteiros - are the central axis of this ethnographic research, developed in the urban area of Pelotas city, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. Their daily practices, narratives and trajectories are approached, as well as their relations with the animals and the city; the position of the government and organized segments of society that fight for the end of animal traction; and the action of teachers and students, mainly from the Veterinary Medicine course at the Federal University of Pelotas, involved in the "Action of attention to carriage-drivers and garbage collectors of Pelotas, RS. I intend to show the heterogeneity of these charreteiros, observing the conflicts and negotiations arising from bills that intend to abolish animal traction in the urban perimeter, in a process in which the power relations are quite unequal.