Feira Manaus Moderna : identidade, memória e redes de interdependência

Abstract

The Municipal Fair Cel. Jorge Teixeira, popularly known as the “Modern Manaus Fair”, has existed since the mid-1970s, when it became a constituent part of the history of Amazonas amid so many political and social decisions. Consolidated in the 1990s as the most important fair in Manaus, the Manaus Modern Fair has an important supply role in the city and has been resignifying with the modernization of this market. The unbridled expansion of wholesale supermarkets is a phenomenon that proves the survival of fairs. For Forman (1979), the fair model is economically and socially viable, but tends to be compelled by the contemporary world. Structural, health and safety problems, which are related to the government, threaten the continuity of fairs. Sociocultural complexity in the context of the Modern Manaus Fair involves workers who maintain and collaborate for the Amazonian culture, its particularities, its memory and for the networks of interdependence, but without being aware of its importance. Why does this supply fair model still stand? What is the contribution of the Modern Manaus Fair to the sociocultural and economic development of the Amazon? How are power relations between workers? What are the workers' perspectives on the future at the Manaus Modern Fair? What local traditions and customs are identified? How do workers reframe them? This dissertation research proposes to identify the socio-cultural and economic processes at the Manaus Moderna Fair and their contribution to Amazonas, regarding the identity, memory and interdependent networks existing in the place, considering the gastronomy, the variety of foodstuffs and the relationships. of power, regarding the identity, memory and tradition of the place in relation to society.