EL PAPEL DE LAS LOCAS DE LA COMUNIDAD CHÃ DA PIA – AREIA (PB), EN LA PRODUCCIÓN ARTESANAL DE LA ARTESANÍA

Resumen

The pottery makers are women of unique knowledge in terms of disrespecting earthenware, built with a relationship between freedom and determinism. Claw women, who dirty all their generations with mud, leaving their memories alive in each generation. Thus, we can consider that the art of pottery making provides knowledge of a reality interpreted by the sensitivity of these artists and that do not have scientific support. In this research, we emphasize the role of the chinaware makers from the community Chã da Pia – Areia (PB), in the artisanal production of earthenware. In this craft, the pottery materializes the clay framing technique, whose prominent aspect is based on manual modeling, open-air burning and application of tincture with the “toá” stone. Thus, the general objective of the research was the analysis of the culture of handmade earthenware and the challenges of women in the preservation of this craft in the community Chã da Pia - Areia (PB - Brazil). A case study was developed on the values and meanings attributed to it throughout the spheres of production, circulation and consumption. Data analysis was performed using content analysis, proposed by Bardin (2011). We conclude that although the pottery makers have knowledge that goes beyond academic knowledge, and with the acquisition of knowledge, given by the knowledge accumulated through generations, the culture of the production of earthenware dishes can be annihilated with the process of globalization.