Desenvolvimento, cultura e território: o doce pé de moleque em Piranguinho/MG - entre os saberes e o artefato

Abstract

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.