Resumo:
The study is based on the theme of development and culture, which seeks to understand the
organization of the production process of making and selling Pé de Moleque (peanut brittle)
sweets in the city of Piraguinho/MG and its influences on the development and construction of
local identity. The justification for the research is the possibility of expanding academic
production on the micro-region of Itajubá, especially research aimed at the municipality in
question. We also seek to question the meanings and concepts related to the issue of
development, expanding the definitions beyond the merely economic matrix, using culture as a
possibility to leverage local development. The objective is, through the actions of public
managers and organizational processes of cultural policies on income generation, to identify
the concepts of development and sustainability that guide the outlines of sociocultural and
political-economic organization between public and private. From a methodological point of
view, a field research was carried out through interviews, observation visits, photographic and
image recording, survey of official and public documents, laws and newspapers, which allow
the identification established in the objective indicated from the organization of cartographies
of controversies, networks of relationships present on cultural practices related to the sweet
peanut tree. It is expected, in addition to understanding local development trends, the
organization of information that can help the direction of local producers and public authorities
with regard to income generation and ways of organizing in favor of local social sustainability,
because of this, this work becomes relevant as a social impact research by analyzing the
production process and its effects on local development.
