Markets and economic change

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2494449
AutoresMoacir Palmeira (0000-0001-8652-0303, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen11
Número1
Páginas285-323
Fecha de publicación2014-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaVibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1809-4341 • E-ISSN: 1809-4341
EditorialFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s1809-43412014000100010
OpenAlexW2082706119
SCIELO_PIDS1809-43412014000100010
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas2

Based on field work in the Zona da Mata of the State of Pernambuco, Brazil, this article discusses the transformations of the sugar estates and mills of the region through an analysis of the local 'feiras' and markets in which workers who had been expelled from the estates were able to buy the items for their subsistence. Besides signaling the growth of a rural proletariat, the expansion of rural markets ('feiras') revealed the emergence of smallholders who had gained a degree of autonomy inside the sugar estates. The system for provisioning the regional rural population, which had previously been controlled through the sugar estate general stores ('barracões') was thus transformed. The counterpoint between feira and barracão reveals the complexities of change in the region and demonstrated the importance of ethnography of market places for the understanding of wider processes of social transformation

Agriculture · Autonomy · Counterpoint · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Estate · Geography · Livelihood · Political science · Population · Proletariat · Sociology · Subsistence agriculture · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Rural Development and Agriculture · Social and Economic Solidarity