Peddling Sweets and Pioneering Territory: black women and work in Colombia’s Caribbean Region
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Resumo: | Abstract This article is the result of ethnographic research carried out with black women from San Basilio de Palenque, a black community located in the Colombian Caribbean. These women work as peddlers of different types of sweets in Colombian territories and neighboring countries. My ethnography followed the movement of Palenquera women who circulate with sweets, in order to examine the dynamics, movements, interactions and meanings of this activity in terms of race, gender and work relations. The women find social dignity in the universe of sweets, despite affirming and experiencing harmful effects on their bodies - that is, despite recognizing that peddling sweets is work that can kill, and that makes them “slaves” - and express positive valuations and emotions about the work. This dual meaning of working with sweets permeates the descriptions presented in this article. The trade offers a marginalized and ambiguous strategy that allows them to survive and promote their social mobility, especially by investing the material gains in the formal education of their children, and the sense that this marginal strategy, although it is difficult, provides them autonomy and dignity. |
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Peddling Sweets and Pioneering Territory: black women and work in Colombia’s Caribbean RegionBlack womenPalenqueworkpeddlingColombian CaribbeanAbstract This article is the result of ethnographic research carried out with black women from San Basilio de Palenque, a black community located in the Colombian Caribbean. These women work as peddlers of different types of sweets in Colombian territories and neighboring countries. My ethnography followed the movement of Palenquera women who circulate with sweets, in order to examine the dynamics, movements, interactions and meanings of this activity in terms of race, gender and work relations. The women find social dignity in the universe of sweets, despite affirming and experiencing harmful effects on their bodies - that is, despite recognizing that peddling sweets is work that can kill, and that makes them “slaves” - and express positive valuations and emotions about the work. This dual meaning of working with sweets permeates the descriptions presented in this article. The trade offers a marginalized and ambiguous strategy that allows them to survive and promote their social mobility, especially by investing the material gains in the formal education of their children, and the sense that this marginal strategy, although it is difficult, provides them autonomy and dignity.Associação Brasileira de Antropologia (ABA)2020-01-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontext/htmlhttp://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1809-43412020000100501Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology v.17 2020reponame:Vibrantinstname:Associação Brasileira de Antropologiainstacron:ABA10.1590/1809-43412020v17d501info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessFreire,Maíra Samara de Limaeng2020-09-29T00:00:00Zoai:scielo:S1809-43412020000100501Revistahttp://www.vibrant.org.br/https://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.phpvibrant.aba@gmail.com1809-43411809-4341opendoar:2020-09-29T00:00Vibrant - Associação Brasileira de Antropologiafalse |
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Peddling Sweets and Pioneering Territory: black women and work in Colombia’s Caribbean Region |
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Peddling Sweets and Pioneering Territory: black women and work in Colombia’s Caribbean Region |
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Peddling Sweets and Pioneering Territory: black women and work in Colombia’s Caribbean Region Freire,Maíra Samara de Lima Black women Palenque work peddling Colombian Caribbean |
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Peddling Sweets and Pioneering Territory: black women and work in Colombia’s Caribbean Region |
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Peddling Sweets and Pioneering Territory: black women and work in Colombia’s Caribbean Region |
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Peddling Sweets and Pioneering Territory: black women and work in Colombia’s Caribbean Region |
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Peddling Sweets and Pioneering Territory: black women and work in Colombia’s Caribbean Region |
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Peddling Sweets and Pioneering Territory: black women and work in Colombia’s Caribbean Region |
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Freire,Maíra Samara de Lima |
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Freire,Maíra Samara de Lima |
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Freire,Maíra Samara de Lima |
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Black women Palenque work peddling Colombian Caribbean |
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Black women Palenque work peddling Colombian Caribbean |
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Abstract This article is the result of ethnographic research carried out with black women from San Basilio de Palenque, a black community located in the Colombian Caribbean. These women work as peddlers of different types of sweets in Colombian territories and neighboring countries. My ethnography followed the movement of Palenquera women who circulate with sweets, in order to examine the dynamics, movements, interactions and meanings of this activity in terms of race, gender and work relations. The women find social dignity in the universe of sweets, despite affirming and experiencing harmful effects on their bodies - that is, despite recognizing that peddling sweets is work that can kill, and that makes them “slaves” - and express positive valuations and emotions about the work. This dual meaning of working with sweets permeates the descriptions presented in this article. The trade offers a marginalized and ambiguous strategy that allows them to survive and promote their social mobility, especially by investing the material gains in the formal education of their children, and the sense that this marginal strategy, although it is difficult, provides them autonomy and dignity. |
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