Traditional arts: food and patchwork in plots

Authors

  • Mônica Chaves Abdala
  • Cristiane Aparecida Fernandes da Silva
  • Claude G. Papavero

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14393/artc-v20-n37-2018-47243

Abstract

The purpose of this discussion is to understand aspects of Brazilian culture and society through two traditional expressions of the arts of making, culinary and textile arts, united in patchwork canvasses. A qualitative investigation analyzed canvasses in the “Brazil, smells, seasonings, and flavors”exhibition, in the 10th Brazil Patchwork Show, São Paulo, 2016. These works represent foods from different regions of the country. They were pictorial allusions to local habits and usages supposing cultural knowledge and practices and made it possible to identify the symbolic richness of the universe as represented. The diversity of aromas and flavors of the foodstuff portrayed therefore confirmed the initial hypothesis about the relevance of those foods to understand Brazilian sociocultural aspects.

keywords: food; art; cultures.

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Author Biographies

Mônica Chaves Abdala

Doutora em Sociologia pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Professora dos Programas de Pós-graduação em Ciências Sociais e em História da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU). Autora, entre outros livros, de Receita de mineiridade: a cozinha e a construção da imagem do mineiro. 2. ed. Uberlândia: Edufu, 2007.

Cristiane Aparecida Fernandes da Silva

Doutora em Sociologia pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Professora do Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU).

Claude G. Papavero

Doutora em Antropologia Social pela Universidade de São Paulo (USP).

Published

2018-12-12

How to Cite

Abdala, M. C., da Silva, C. A. F., & Papavero, C. G. (2018). Traditional arts: food and patchwork in plots. ArtCultura, 20(37), 95–111. https://doi.org/10.14393/artc-v20-n37-2018-47243